Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge. File photo. Image: X/@PriyankKharge
Bengaluru: RSS activist Tejas A. Gowda filed a complaint at Banashankari Police Station on November 10 seeking an FIR against Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge over his social media remarks about the seizure of 44,250 live cartridges in Bihar and Haryana. It was unclear whether police had registered an FIR.
Gowda alleged that Kharge’s remarks linking the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to the seizure were misleading and could disturb social harmony. He asked police to register an FIR under Sections 192, 196 and 353 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and to preserve the relevant electronic records.
Kharge had asked the RSS and BJP to answer questions about the seizure. He cited reports and photographs that he said appeared to show people implicated in the case wearing RSS uniforms. The claimed connection has not been independently verified.
Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and Girish Bharadwaj had questioned one of the group photographs Kharge shared, citing a fact-check that described the circulating image as AI-generated.
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