One person was killed in police firing as security forces took to the streets to quell the violence in Bangalore on Monday.
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Then, some 200,000 Tamils were reported to have left the city, after incidents of violence and arson targeting them.
Earlier in the day, Union minister Venkaiah Naidu said that violence in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over Cauvery waters is quite disturbing and it can not be justified on any ground.
A television journalist reports amidst the charred remains of passenger buses owned by a transport company from the neighboring Tamil Nadu state, after they were set on fire by a mob in Bangalore, capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, India, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.
It is shocking that a minister of the Government of India should attribute the September arson and violence in Bengaluru to “the provocations by the people of Tamil Nadu”.
Chief Secretaries P Rama Mohana Rao (Tamil Nadu), Arvind Jadhav (Karnataka), Manoj Parida (Puducherry) and senior officials from Kerala, Central Water Commission and Union Water Resources Ministry attended the meeting.
The city police has clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code as a preventive measure in Bengaluru city from Monday evening. Later in the evening, protestors torched over 20 buses in the KPN bus depot.
The police said as many as 15,000 police men and officers have been deployed all over the city and around 270 Hoysala vehicles are deployed which act like police outposts.
Businesses in Bengaluru have faced four days of disruption this month because of protests about the water dispute and an unrelated trade union-organised strike on September 2.
Parameshwar said police reinforcements had been deployed, particularly in areas inhabited by ethnic Tamils who could be a target. People started throwing stones on a Manappuram Gold Loan branch after someone said that it is a Tamil Nadu-based firm but stopped after they got to know that it is based in Kerala. “We have requested for more”.
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 neighbouring state and also against the apex court modified order.
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SC’s directive to release 12,000 cusecs of water to TN led to violent protests in Bengaluru. The city has been at a standstill since Monday (12 September) after violent protests erupted in several parts of the city over a century-old dispute pertaining to the Cauvery River with the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. This had triggered strong protests from farmers and pro-Kannada outfits, who nearly shut down the State on September 9.
