Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said the state government will provide Y-category security to three judges of the Karnataka high court, including Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi
The ban on hijab in educational institutions in the state was recently upheld.
Bommais remarks came after the police registered a case after a video of a man threatening to kill Karnataka high court chief justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and others went viral
This came to the fore on social media in the wake of the recent court verdict upholding the ban on hijab in educational institutions.
Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said the inclusion of the Bhagavad Gita in the school curriculum was being considered as part of moral education. In other news, One of the daughters of Kannada scholar MM Kalburgi, At the age of 77, the 30th of August, In 2015, he was shot dead at the door of his house in Dharwad, On March 19, 2012, the police identified the killers of his father during an emotional statement in a court in Dharwad. 1912.
Bommai's statement came after a video surfaced showing a man threatening three judges. "This is one of the dangerous signs in a democracy and we must ensure that such anti-national forces do not grow." Law and order has been maintained in the country due to the judiciary, the chief minister said outside his residence on Sunday.
A three-judge bench comprising Justice Krishna Dixit and Justice Kazi M Jayabunani was hearing the case. According to police sources, two people have been arrested in Tamil Nadu after the video surfaced.
"I am also questioning the pseudo secular people who are silent." This is not secularism, this is communalism. We have to stand together and oppose this act," Bommai said.
The high court had recently upheld the state governments decision to ban the wearing of hijab inside classrooms and said it was not an essential practice in Islam.
On Saturday, advocate Umapathy S complained to the Registrar General of the Karnataka High Court that he received a video message on WhatsApp in which a person, during a public meeting, mentions the alleged murder of a judge in Jharkhand, while he was going out.
"The Speaker (in the video) also makes a similar threat to the Chief Justice of Karnataka, saying that people know where the Chief Justice goes to walk." Further, he makes a reference to the Allahabad High Court from where he was transferred to the Karnataka High Court and also a visit to the Udupi Math with family members.
He addresses the Chief Justice in a singular language and gives an open challenge to register any case against him. He also addresses the court verdict in a very vulgar language.The complainant said the video was possibly shot in Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
Another lawyer, Sudha Katwa, has also filed a complaint in this regard at Cubbon Park police station, where a case has been registered under Sections 506(1), 505(1)(c), 505(1)(b) of the Indian Penal Code. 153A, 109, 504 and 505(2) relates to criminal intimidation and promoting fear and enmity between communities.