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Unknown Assailants Attack Chennai Hotel Over Cauvery Row
The group also allegedly left pamphlets warning of retaliation if Tamils were targeted in Karnataka. Rumours have been doing rounds since afternoon that the section had been imposed in the city.
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has appealed to social media users to not support any hate campaign. “Additional police forces have been deployed in localities where Tamils live for their protection”, state home minister G Parameshwar told reporters.
It did, though, reduce the amount of water Karnataka has to release to Tamil Nadu, to 12,000 cusecs a day from 15,000 cusecs a day, and directed it to release the water until September 20. “People can not take the law into their hand”.
His letter came after petrol bombs were lobbed at a Kannada-run Udipi hotel in Chennai. But we have to respect the order. “We will again ask the court to modify its order, as we not in a position to release any more water due to the distress situation in the state”, asserted Parameshwar.
The conflict over Cauvery waters has spilled on to the social media too with pro-Tamil groups making sarcastic remarks on Kannada actors and some pro-Kannada activists taking it to the streets and targeting the persons and attacking them.
Bus services from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu have been suspended following attacks on travel agency offices and burning of buses in Bengaluru.
Remove any slogans and writings in Tamil on your vehicle at least for the day so as not to become a target to pro-Kannada groups. Movement of commercial and non-commercial vehicles including two-wheelers to Karnataka from Erode was restricted while inter-state road transport through Hosur was also affected on account of escalating protests in Karnataka.
Following the attack on Kannadigas in TN, the pro-Kannada activists have started a protest in the city. This is only the latest episode in a dispute that predates Indian independence.
A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and UU Lalit, which sat on a holiday to consider the urgent plea of Karnataka, however, expressed deep anguish over the “tone and tenor” of the fresh plea and said the law and order situation can not be taken as a ground for non-compliance of the order of the court.
Today’s modification comes on the plea of Karnataka government that sought to suspend its order because Tami Nadu is not having a water crisis. “Agitation, spontaneity or galvanized riot…can never form the foundation for seeking modification of an order”, it said.
“Citizen and the executive of this country have to accept and obey the order of the SC unless it is modified”.
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Meanwhile, contingents of the Karnataka State Reserve Police have been rushed to Mandya and Mysuru for deployment on the state highways and protecting reservoirs in the river basin from being attacked by angry protestors. Farmers there said they didn’t have enough water for their own farms.