Karnataka police arrest BJP girl for questioning CM Siddaramaiah over Udupi coverup

On twenty eighth July 2023, a BJP employee named Shakuntala was arrested in Tumakuru of Karnataka for questioning chief minister Siddaramaiah on the Udupi school restroom filming incident. Shakuntala was arrested for her tweet in response to a tweet by Karnataka Congress which referred to as the act of Muslim ladies in Udupi’s medical school making movies of Hindu ladies in bathrooms a baby act. She was later launched on bail on the police station.

The Karnataka Congress posted, “When will BJP which has created fake news of “video shooting of female students” in Udupi school break the silence in regards to the real information of ABVP president filming the obscene video of Hindu lady college students in Tirthahalli? BJP Karnataka, which was going to make use of the youngsters’s combat for political functions, has been dissatisfied by our alert police investigating at once and uncovering the reality.”

ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ಯುವತಿಯರು ಟಾಯ್ಲೆಟ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ ಇಟ್ಟು ಹಿಂದೂ ಹೆಣ್ಣುಮಕ್ಕಳ ವಿಡಿಯೋ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ನವರ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಮಕ್ಕಳಾಟವಂತೆ..@siddaramaiah ನವರ ಸೊಸೆ or ಹೆಂಡ್ತಿ ಅವ್ರ ವಿಡಿಯೋವನ್ನು ಇದೆ ತರ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರೆ
ಅದನ್ನು ಮಕ್ಕಳಾಟ ಅಂತ ಒಪ್ಕೋತೀರಾ? pic.twitter.com/jP0QTKvL5R

— ಶಕುಂತಲ🪷Shakunthala (@ShakunthalaHS) July 25, 2023

Replying to this, Shakuntala tweeted, “According to the Congress, Muslim girls putting cameras in the toilet and making videos of Hindu girls is a childish act. Siddaramaiah, if your daughter-in-law or wife makes a video like this, do you call it child’s play?” She additionally shared a screenshot of the Karnataka Congress tweet.

Following her tweet, a criticism was lodged on the High Grounds police station in Bengaluru by Hanumantharaya, a Congress employee. Accordingly, the police registered an FIR towards Shakuntala, a local of Tumakuru. Based on the case, the High Grounds police arrested Shakuntala. At the police station, she was launched on bail.

At the time of arrest, Shakuntala was taking part in a protest in entrance of the deputy commissioner’s workplace within the metropolis by the BJP District Mahila Morcha in Tumakuru, condemning the Congress authorities’s makes an attempt to cowl up the incident by which three Muslim ladies had made a secret filming of Hindu ladies. The protesters demanded a high-level probe into the case.

Shakuntala requested, “Are the Congress and its followers saying that Muslim girls making nude videos of Hindu girls is a joke and a child’s play and that the complaint written by the victim girls is also fake?”

Protests by BJP

On Friday, July 27, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members within the state of Karnataka launched an enormous protest towards the three ladies college students of a non-public paramedical school in Udupi for filming fellow college students inside a washroom utilizing cellphones. The BJP members and employees held placards and posters and raised slogans towards the Congress authorities within the state as they protested on the streets of Udupi.

While the BJP Mahila Morcha and different members took the protests to the Udupi streets, the employees of BJP Yuva Morcha staged a protest exterior Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara’s residence, demanding motion towards the accused Muslim ladies within the case.

The Udupi restroom filming case

On July 18, the three Muslim college students recorded a video of their classmate within the Netra Jyoti College, Udupi when she was within the washroom. The incident got here to gentle when the sufferer Hindu scholar, instructed her pals in regards to the incident, who then knowledgeable the faculty administration.

Reportedly, the Udupi district police filed FIR within the case on July 26 towards the Muslim college students who clandestinely recorded non-public video of Hindu college students within the washroom and uploaded it on social media. The school administration had earlier taken cognizance of the occasion and had carried out an inquiry into the matter. The administration had additionally concluded that the video had been deleted, closing the case.

However, attributable to public outrage, a suo moto case had been registered on the Malpe Police Station within the Udupi district. A case has been filed towards three Muslim college students named Alimatul Shaifa, Shabanaz, and Alia, who had been answerable for creating the video, in addition to towards the administration board of Netrajyoti College. They have been charged with proof destruction. The police have registered a number of circumstances underneath sections 509, 204, 175, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.