Silvester D'Souza
Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (MS)
Kundapur, Mar 4: The town court here on Wednesday, March 4, ordered to provide medical treatment to accused Raghavendra Ganiga, who continuously raised pro-Pakistan slogans in the Mini Vidhana Soudha here on Monday.
Lawyer for the accused, G Santhosh Kumar Shetty in his argument said, "Raghavendra has a known mental sickness and has behaved in that manner without any prejudice. Even in front of the cops he was raising pro-Pakistan slogans. So he needs medical treatment and he should be given bail."
Kundapur police had produced accused Ganiga to the court on Wednesday. After hearing the argument in favour of the accused, the court ordered the medical officer of district hospital to provide Raghavendra treatment till March 13 and submit a report to the court. In addition, the court has also asked to give the accused suitable security cover.
Accused Raghavendra was sent to judicial custody till March 16, when he was produced in the court on Monday. However, now he will be admitted to the district hospital. This has given some respite to his relatives.
In addition to raising pro-Pakistan slogans, Raghavendra Ganiga had also asked the cops to send him to Pakistan. It is said that the accused must have got influenced by the continuous television broadcast of the earlier incidents of pro-Pakistan sloganeering by Amulya and Adra, in which the videos were being played continuously on TV. It is learnt that Ganiga used to watch continuously at home.