Karnataka: Warning to ‘anti-Hindu’ writers and thinkers. Police arrested Shivaji Rao Jhadav.

Hindutva activist arrested for sending threat letters to ‘anti-Hindu’ Kannada authors and thinkers.

B Upendran | HENB | Bengaluru | Sept 30, 2023:: Shivaji Rao Jadhav, a Hindutv activist from Karnataka’s Davanagere district, has been arrested for sending warning letters to more than 15 ‘anti-Hindu’ Kannada authors and thinkers under the garb of  their  so called ‘progressive’ reputation with ‘selective secular’ nature.

Police confirmed Jadhav’s arrest on Saturday for sending ‘threat letters’.

Jadhav was arrested in the district by sleuths of the City Central Crime Branch (CCB).

The accused had been sending the warnings since the past two years, leading to the targeted authors meeting Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on multiple occasions while demanding for swift action.

In the letters, Jadhav warned the writers, including K. Veerabhadrappa, B.L. Venu, Banjagere Jayaprakash, B.T. Lalita Naik, Vasundhara Bhupathi, for going against Hindutva, saying that they should count their last days under ‘divine curse’!

The case was handed over to the Special Wing CCB and experts of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) had found that all the ‘threat letters’ were written by the same person but posted from different districts and taluks.

As a result of the letters, state Home Minister Dr. G. Parameshwara had directed the police to provide suitable security to the authors.

While confessing to his crime, Jadhav claimed that he warned the authors and thinkers due to their anti-Hindu stand.

The police produced him before the court and took him to 10 days of custody for interrogation.

The development was taken seriously after the murders of journalist Gauri Lankesh and activist – writer Prof. M.M. Kalburgi in Karnataka.

In Karnataka, Maharashtra  and Tamil Nadu, a section of writers and thinkers usually provoke the Hindus by attacking their religious sentiments under the banner of progressiveness and liberty of thoughts and expressions; but never touch anything of Islam and Christianity, which create a great resentment in the mind of Hindus obviously.

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__Inputs from IANS.