5 years in the past, a protest was held in entrance of the home of the then Training Minister Suresh Kumar. Contemplating this, immediately the police of Basaveshwaranagar Police Station have come to Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha chief Vatal Nagaraj’s home to arrest him. | Photograph Credit score: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Senior Kannada activist and former MLA Vatal Nagaraj was arrested by the Basaveshwaranagar police from his residence in Greenback’s Colony amid excessive drama on Wednesday.
This was following a warrant issued by the forty second Further Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace court docket in reference to a case over a protest relationship again to 2021. “I had sat on a protest in entrance of then Training Minister S. Suresh Kumar, demanding that every one SSLC college students be handed that yr with out exams, because of the pandemic. I used to be even sporting a masks. Police filed an FIR towards me for that protest and it has dragged on until now. Regardless of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s assurance on November 1, 2025 that every one instances towards Kannada activists can be withdrawn, this case is proof that it isn’t but the case,” Mr. Nagaraj instructed The Hindu.
Revealed – April 08, 2026 09:44 pm IST