Mysuru: Cow vigilantes inflicting violence cannot escape from the arms of law , warned the chief minister and added none could take law into their own hands.
Reacting on the attack of a techie-cum-animal right activist in Bengaluru, Chief Minister Siddaramaih said that instructions had been issued to the concerned to take action against the miscreants.
It may be recalled, a mob allegedly attacked two women animal rights activists along with two constables accompanying them when they tried to rescue cattle from an illegal slaughterhouse at Avalahalli near Thalaghattapura of Bengaluru on October 14. In the melee, Nandini, 45, a software engineer from Koramangala, fractured her hand and sustained head injuries.
The police had booked a case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and also under the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964 after the incident.
On MLC B J Puttaswamy’s claim of committing suicide in front of state power house Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, if denotification charges levelled by him against the CM are proven false, CM said let him first prove the charges and then attempt suicide. The allegations levelled are baseless and let none attempt suicide on that count, CM stated further.
At the same time, CM said that he had written a letter to the union minister concerned to take action against the errant officials and staff in KSOU reassuring again of not shutting down the open varsity. He also said that the officials had been asked to provide relief to the rain affected.
