Maharashtra transport minister suspends state bus services to Karnataka | India News

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik suspended state transport buses to Karnataka after pro-Kannada activists attacked an MSRTC bus in Chitradurga on Friday.
The activists focused a bus travelling from Bengaluru to Mumbai, the place they assaulted driver Bhaskar Jadhav. A police criticism has been lodged in Karnataka concerning this incident.
The minister detailed that the MSRTC bus (MH-14 KQ 7714) was attacked shortly after passing by means of Chitradurga. He stated that bus services would stay suspended till the Karnataka authorities clarifies its place on the matter.
Meanwhile, a Karnataka state transport conductor was assaulted the identical day close to Belagavi for not talking to a passenger in Marathi.
Authorities have arrested 4 people for the assault whereas the conductor additionally faces fees underneath the POCSO Act for allegedly making derogatory remarks.
The 51-year-old conductor, Mahadevappa Mallappa Hukkeri, recalled {that a} feminine passenger and her companion at Sulebhavi village spoke to him in Marathi. When he expressed his incapacity to perceive Marathi and requested them to communicate in Kannada, the state of affairs escalated.
Hukkeri defined that the lady demanded he be taught Marathi and subsequently, a crowd gathered and attacked him. He obtained remedy at Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences for minor accidents and is now secure.
On Saturday, pro-Kannada activists protested by blocking the Belagavi-Bagalkote street and burning effigies earlier than being eliminated by police.
Additional protests occurred at Marihal police station, the place activists condemned the alleged assault on the conductor and disputed the case towards him. Police subsequently eliminated these protesters.