Bengaluru police have booked murder-accused Hindutva activist Puneeth Kerehalli once again, this time for allegedly making false and inflammatory claims that Karnataka’s Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG&IGP) M A Saleem owns a “benami” property and “is sheltering illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.”
The fresh case was registered suo motu on Friday at the cybercrime police station, just days after Kerehalli was arrested and released on bail for the second time this month in other cases.
According to police, Kerehalli has been booked under Section 66C (identity theft) of the Information Technology Act and Sections 196, 353(1)(b), and 197(1)(c) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deal with promoting enmity between groups, making statements that lead to public mischief, and making imputations prejudicial to national integration.
The FIR was registered after the city police’s social media monitoring team came across a video in which Kerehalli, along with four or five associates, was seen barging into a premises in Soladevanahalli belonging to a woman named Sakeena Taslim.
In the video, Kerehalli allegedly claimed that the property was a “benami” property of DG&IGP M A Saleem and falsely asserted that illegal Bangladeshi nationals were living there. He also allegedly made a live video from the spot and circulated it on platforms such as Facebook and other social media sites.
The FIR states that through the video, Kerehalli spread false...
Bengaluru police have booked murder-accused Hindutva activist Puneeth Kerehalli once again, this time for allegedly making false and inflammatory claims that Karnataka’s Director General and Inspe...