Bengaluru: A youth in Bengaluru was hauled up on Sunday by a gang for his social media posts criticising Kannada film stars and the ongoing Cauvery water war with Tamil Nadu.
Police say no official complaint has been filed yet but the culprits are being identified.
The young man was thrashed, kicked and abused and slapped several times by a gang because of his post on facebook that questioned the quality of stars produced by the Kannada film industry. He also compared the Kannada film stars to the actors in the Tamil film industry.
This comes in amid the bitterness between the Tamil community and the Kannadis over the ongoing Cauvery water issue
The gang made a video of the vigilantism that shows how the young man was humiliated and attacked.
Soon after a video of the vigilantism went viral, #We Hate Karnataka started trending on social media.
Meanwhile the response of Karnataka government seems inadequate as Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, instead of assuring action, tweets: "I appeal to Twitter users to not support any hate campaign. It is irresponsible and mischievous to support hate messages of any kind."
I appeal to Twitter users to not support any hate campaign. It is irresponsible and mischievous to support hate messages of any kind.— CM of Karnataka (@CMofKarnataka) September 11, 2016
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