Kodagu (Karnataka), July 18 (UNI) Karnataka police have arrested a Hindu youth on charges of posting objectionable, indecent posts on goddess Cauvery and women in Kodagu district of Karnataka, police said on Monday.
The arrested youth has been identified as Divin Devaiah, a resident of Kedamulluru in Virajpet taluk in Kodagu district. According to police, the accused had opened an account in the name of Muslim youth and posted messages.
The accused, through his fake account, posted defamatory and insulting messages on the goddess Cauvery, which the local Kodava community worshiped as their deity. He had also targeted women belonging to the Kodava community in his derogatory posts.
Kodagu is considered a bastion of BJP and Hindu organizations and it is also considered as a communally sensitive region. Various organizations had given bandh calls condemning the posts and the issue had taken a communal turn, threatening law and order situation.
Following the arrest, the bandh call given in the Kodagu district is withdrawn. Police explained that they had to take the help of Mumbai police to crack the case. The Mumbai police had got the inputs from California City about the fake FB account and passed on the inputs to local police, sources explained.
