The week-long agitation peaked in Karnataka yesterday.
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One person had died in police firing while another succumbed to injuries he suffered while escaping police lathi charge when he jumped in panic from a three-storey building.
Curfew which was imposed on Monday evening in 16 police station limits also continues to remain enforced.
Trucks with Tamil Nadu registration number plate were either stoned or set on fire also in Mandya, Mysuru, Chitradurga and Dharwad districts as Kannada activists gave vent to their anger over alleged attacks on state vehicles and property of Kannadigas in the neighboring state and also against the apex court modified order.
While the court had originally said 15,000 cusecs of water need to be sent to the neighbouring state over 10 days, it later reduced this to 12,000 cusecs.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that riots over access to river water in the technology hub of Bengaluru this week were “distressful” and the dispute must be resolved peacefully.
A petition seeking the intervention of the Supreme Court to improve law and order situation in both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu has been filed. “I have not made or given any statement on this issue”, Simbu said in a statement.
Schools, colleges, government offices, private offices and banks were closed in Bangalore today for the Id-ul-Zuha festival today while many IT companies and others advised their employees to work from home.
A police personnel canes a motorcyclist during a curfew following violence in the city due to the Cauvery water sharing dispute with neighbouring state Tamil Nadu, in Bangalore on September 13, 2016.
The violence in the Cauvery water dispute claimed its second life on Tuesday, as an uneasy calm hung over worst-hit Bengaluru amid sporadic protests in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu marked by targeted attacks.
Following the ongoing unrest in Bengaluru over the Cauvery water sharing row, central forces have been deployed to assist the city police to maintain law and order. “Violence in the state capital and other parts of Karnataka has severely dented the image of Bengaluru as the Silicon Valley of India, and home to nearly all of the Fortune 500 companies”, says ASSOCHAM, India’s leading industry body on Tuesday.
“I fervently appeal to the people of both the States to immediately cooperate in ensuring peace and normalcy”.
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Modi called the violence “distressful” and urged restraint in the city known as India’s Silicon Valley, home to local IT companies as well as offices of global giants such as Amazon and Microsoft.
