Prohibitory Orders In Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada After Pickup Driver's Murder Sparks Tensions

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 11:16 IST

Abdul Raheem was allegedly hacked to decease connected Tuesday by a radical of assailants portion unloading soil from his conveyance adjacent Ira Kodi.

Heavy constabulary deployment was maintained successful delicate areas crossed Dakshina Kannada. (Representative/PTI File)

Tensions stay precocious crossed parts of Dakshina Kannada territory pursuing the brutal execution of a 35-year-old pickup motortruck operator successful Koltthamajalu. The sidesplitting ignited crisp communal reactions, starring authorities to enforce prohibitory orders crossed aggregate taluks to forestall further unrest.

Abdul Raheem, besides known arsenic Imtiyaz, was allegedly hacked to decease connected Tuesday by a radical of assailants portion unloading soil from his conveyance adjacent Ira Kodi. Police said that different idiosyncratic sustained injuries successful the sword onslaught and is presently receiving infirmary treatment. Abdul Raheem’s decease sparked wide outrage, peculiarly connected societal media, wherever galore person claimed it to beryllium a retaliatory enactment for the caller execution of Hindu activistic Suhas Shetty. Crowds gathered adjacent Highland Hospital successful Mangaluru connected Tuesday evening earlier Abdul Raheem’s assemblage was moved for autopsy.

SDPI territory president Anwar Sadath claimed, “Raheem was a hardworking youth, not affiliated to immoderate governmental organisation, and was lured to the tract nether the pretext of enactment and past killed by a pack affiliated to right-wing groups."

Prohibitory Orders Imposed

In effect to the escalating situation, territory authorities enforced Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), prohibiting ample gatherings successful Bantwal, Puttur, Belthangady, Sullia, and Kadaba taluks until 6 PM connected May 30. A abstracted prohibitory bid has besides been issued for Mangaluru taluk, falling nether the Mangaluru City Commissionerate jurisdiction.

Heavy constabulary deployment was maintained successful delicate areas crossed Dakshina Kannada, with checkpoints established to show question and forestall the dispersed of rumors.

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Karnataka, India, India

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