‘Get custody of those who threatened judges’

NT Correspondent

Karnataka Director General and Inspector General of Police Praveen Sood has been asked to secure the custody of two persons from an organisation in Tamil Nadu for allegedly issuing death threats to three judges of the high court of Karnataka who had delivered the final verdict on the controversial hijab row, and take stringent action against the duo under strong sections of the law.

Talking to reporters here on Sunday, CM Bommai said anti-national forces which pose a challenge to the nation’s law and order system cannot be tolerated. Death threats against the three judges including the Chief Justice, have been received from Tamil Nadu. A case has been registered in this regard. Everyone should accept the court’s verdict on the hijab issue. There are provisions for filing review petitions if the petitioners are not satisfied with the judgement. Despite these provisions, disruptive forces are inciting people to rise against the system.

The CM said a case has been registered in Tamil Nadu in this regard. The Bar Council of the Karnataka High Court too has filed a case at Vidhana Soudha police station. “I have instructed the State Director General of Police to start the investigation immediately. Orders have been issued to get their custody to bring them to the State and take stringent legal action against the accused. Security for the three judges has been tightened by raising it to ‘Y’ category,” he said.

Bommai said pseudo secularists have been silent on the issue. Appeasing a section of people is not secularism and amounts to communalism. They need to fight unitedly in cases like this as they need to preserve the judicial system of the country. The threats should be strongly condemned in public, he added.

Replying to a question on the bus accident at Pavagada in Tumakuru, Bommai said instructions have been issued to check overcrowding in buses during school and college hours. Licences of such buses would be cancelled. Intensive checking of buses for overcrowding would be conducted on such routes. The state government would bear the entire treatment cost of the injured.