The Bengaluru police on Thursday registered a case against former BJP MP Pratap Simha and others for allegedly obstructing police duty while protesting in front of a local police station. The protest was a fallout of an allegation over ‘dog meat’ allegedly being sold in Bengaluru as sheep meat.
Simha, BJP MLA Harish Poonja, and several others had protested in front of the Basaveshwara Nagar police station on Wednesday alleging that self-proclaimed Hindutva activist Puneeth Kerehalli was tortured in police custody.
Kerehalli, an accused in a murder case, was arrested after he created a ruckus at Bengaluru city railway station on July 26 saying that he had intercepted cartons containing dog meat that was to be sold as sheep meat in the city. The consignment belonged to Abdul Razaak, a trader who sourced the meat from Rajasthan.
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