Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)
Mangaluru, Jun 18: Sleuths of Barke and Urwa police station in a joint operation have arrested a man accused of insulting the Tulu Nadu flag through a Facebook post recently.
The arrested accused is identified as Surya NK, who had edited the Tulu Nadu flag and added indecent comments to the Facebook post on June 6.
It is said that based on a police complaint by the city corporator Shashidhar Hegde, the accused was arrested. Hegde had filed a complaint in this regard with the police commissioner’s office on June 9. A case under IPC section 153 (a), 505 (2) was registered against the Surya.
Barke police station sub-inspector Harun Akthar, Urwa police station staff, Pushparaj, Prakash and Barke police station staff Sharath were sent to Bengaluru on special duty on June 17 to nab the accused. They took Surya into custody from his residence at Rampur, Bengaluru and escorted him to Mangaluru on June 18. He has been produced in court that has remanded him to judicial custody.