Bengaluru: Files are being prepared to withdraw cases against Kannada activists, Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said on Sunday, while warning pro-Kannada groups against moral policing and attacks on IT companies.
“I have already instructed that all the cases against you should be withdrawn. Files in this regard are being prepared,” Shivakumar said, responding to reporters’ questions at various places in the city. The government had decided to free activists from such cases, he said, but cautioned that if they repeated such acts, the police could object to withdrawing the cases.
“No pro-Kannada organisation should go to attack IT companies. Taking the law into one’s hands is not right. There is no room for moral policing,” he said, urging people to bring complaints to the government’s notice so that the police could act according to law.
Asked about the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) observing a “black day” in Belagavi, Shivakumar said neither Kannadigas nor Marathi speakers should take the law into their own hands. “Everyone living on this land must respect its law and its dignity. The law is the same for all,” he said.
The government was committed to protecting the Kannada language and the people of Karnataka, and would discharge that responsibility itself, he said.
On the Congress-led protest in Delhi, Shivakumar said the right to vote was like the right to live, and alleged that lakhs of votes had been systematically deleted. The party was committed to protecting every voter’s rights, he said.
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