“Curfew has been lifted in all 16 police station limits of Bengaluru city from 9 AM today”, City Police Commissioner N S Megharikh tweeted.
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As per section 144, four or more people can not assemble in the town, and this will surely impact the working of many multinational companies operating in the city.
With buses, taxis, autos and metro rail returning to the roads, thousands commuted to offices and workplaces in and around the city.
Though schools, colleges, government and private offices and banks have holiday for Eid, several IT firms and back offices, which are working, advised their techies to work from homes in view of the simmering tension across the city.
The CM also stated that drinking water would be made available to Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mandya and villages in the Cauvery basin, till June 2017.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is waiting for an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to seek his intervention in the water dispute.
In Bengaluru, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said, “It is true that violence is not a solution to any problem”.
One protester was killed overnight after police fired on a mob which was trying to torch a police vehicle, T.R. Suresh, deputy police commissioner for the city’s north, said.
Uneasy calm prevailed in the city on Tuesday with sporadic incidents of protests after outbreak of violence on Monday following the Supreme Court order modifying its 5 September order asking Karnataka to release a reduced amount of 12,000 cusecs of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu till 20 September.
“People of both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu should cooperate in maintaining law and order in both states”.
Karnataka has suffered losses of around Rs 25,000 crore because of the protests and bandhs held in the past few days over the Cauvery water-sharing dispute, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India said on Tuesday.
He also said that he will urge the PM to call up Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and speak to her to perhaps soften her stance in he terms of sharing of waters of the Cauvery river.
He said the first order passed on September 5 itself was hard and yesterday’s was “most difficult” to follow.
Protests erupted after the Supreme Court ordered Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital, to release water from a river to ease a shortage in Tamil Nadu until later this month.
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Pointing out that the violence was an instantaneous reaction to the developments in Tamil Nadu, Parameshwara said, “We have controlled it as far as possible, or else there were chances of it going out of control and more loss of lives”.
