Days after the Karnataka authorities introduced that Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq would inaugurate Mysuru Dasara celebrations, the Udupi district police Saturday registered two separate circumstances towards two folks for allegedly posting communal and provocative content material on social media.
The primary case emerged when Santosh Kulal from Kollur police station’s social media monitoring Cell observed a Fb submit by one Jagadish Udupa at 7 pm Friday. Udupa’s submit questioned the federal government’s selection, stating it was “incorrect to insult the good Hindu faith simply to please one neighborhood” and issued warnings about potential penalties. The police mentioned the message was provocative and able to disrupting communal concord.
In one other incident, Sub Inspector Sundar of the Karkala Rural police station, whereas monitoring social media at 5 pm the identical day, discovered a Fb submit citing the faith of Mushtaq.
The Fb web page ‘Sudeep Shetty Nitte’ featured a submit criticising the choice to ask her, arguing that “Dasara is a Hindu cultural pageant with occasions performed in line with Hindu traditions” and questioned why somebody who “doesn’t settle for or follow Sanatana Hindu tradition” ought to inaugurate it. The submit additional accused the “anti-Hindu Congress” of actions that “damage Hindu sentiments”.
The police registered the circumstances below Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Part 353(2) [create, publish, or circulate false information or alarming news which is likely to create feelings of enmity or hatred between religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities].
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Friday introduced that Mushtaq would inaugurate the Mysuru Dasara 2025 celebrations.
“Banu Mushtaq has come from the background of wrestle for varied causes, she has labored within the Raita Sangha, Kannada Chaluvali. She is a progressive thinker. Such a girl has been invited for Dasara inauguration. I’ve spoken to her,” he mentioned.
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In Might, Banu Mushtaq received the Worldwide Booker Prize for her brief story assortment ‘Coronary heart Lamp’, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasth. This was the primary time a group of brief tales had received the prize. It additionally marked the primary time a e book initially written in Kannada acquired this honour. ‘Coronary heart Lamp’ is a group of 12 brief tales written by Mushtaq between 1990 and 2023.