The Karnataka Police Thursday registered a case in opposition to BJP MLC C T Ravi for allegedly delivering a provocative speech concentrating on a minority group through the Ganesha idol immersion ceremony in Maddur city within the Mandya district Wednesday.
In keeping with the suo motu FIR by the Maddur police, Ravi made the speech throughout a mass Ganesha idol immersion occasion through which a number of BJP leaders participated in Maddur. It adopted an alleged stone pelting incident throughout a Ganesha idol procession on September 7.
The police booked Ravi underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Part 196 (1)[promote or attempt to promote disharmony, enmity, hatred, or ill-will between different religious, racial, linguistic, or regional groups, or between castes or communities].
On Thursday, Ravi mentioned he’ll proceed to struggle for Hindutva causes. “Ought to we sit quietly if stones are pelted on the Ganesha procession? What I mentioned was that for each motion there will probably be a response,” he added.
Ravi, a former MLA from the Chikkamagaluru Meeting seat, misplaced within the 2023 polls. Following this, the BJP made him a member of the Legislative Council. On December 19, 2024, the police arrested him on the Suvarna Vidhan Soudha in Belagavi for allegedly utilizing a derogatory time period in opposition to minister Laxmi Hebbalkar within the Legislative Council corridor.
Ravi was beforehand booked for the same offence, associated to a put up on X within the lead-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.