{"id":325313,"date":"2020-08-12T04:13:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T04:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325313"},"modified":"2020-08-12T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T06:12:22","slug":"3-dead-after-violence-breaks-out-in-bengaluru-over-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/3-dead-after-violence-breaks-out-in-bengaluru-over-facebook-post\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead after violence breaks out in Bengaluru over Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325314 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/violence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/violence-2.jpg 622w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/violence-2-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/violence-2-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/>Three people died in violence that broke out in Bengaluru on Tuesday night after angry mobs attacked a Congress MLA&#8217;s house over a communally social media post shared allegedly by the MLA&#8217;s relative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Protesters attacked Pulakeshinagar MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy&#8217;s house. Rioters also gathered near the KG Halli police station in east Bengaluru, demanding a case be registered against his relative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The mob set many vehicles on fire and surrounded MLA&#8217;s house in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The person who posted the message has been arrested. 110 people have also been arrested for violence, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 60 police personnel have sustained injuries in the clashes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Section 144 has been imposed in Bengaluru following the violence that erupted in some parts of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said, \u201cthe attack on journalists, police and public in the riot last night was unpredictable. Government will not tolerate such provocations and rumors. Strict action against perpetrators is certain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDirectives have been issued against the perpetrators and the government has taken all possible steps to curb the situation,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people died in violence that broke out in Bengaluru on Tuesday night after angry mobs attacked a Congress MLA&#8217;s house over a communally social media post shared allegedly by the MLA&#8217;s relative. Protesters attacked Pulakeshinagar MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy&#8217;s house. Rioters also gathered near the KG Halli police station in east Bengaluru, demanding a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":325314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1343,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325323,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325313\/revisions\/325323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}