Mangalore, September 23: Hundreds of people under the banner of Karnataka Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (Krishnappa) on Friday staged a demonstration in the city demanding the immediate arrest of those behind the killings of city based taxi driver Govardhana.
The protesters, who took out a rally from Jyothi Circle, gathered in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner raising slogans against the failure of cops in solving the murder case.
The protesters set a 15 day deadline for the police to arrest the culprits. They also demanded the government to provide a government job to one of the family members of the victim.
Addressing the protesters DSS State Secretary Satya Bhadravati said that the unsolved case of a Dalit driver is another example for the failure of policing in coastal Karnataka.
Reminding that the incident has taken place in the home district of Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, he said his group would not allow the CM to participate in any programme, if he continued to ignore this brutal murder.
“If the police failed solve this case within 15 days, the DSS will stage a broom showing protest at the office of the Commissioner of Police”, he warned and added that state level office bearers will decide on future course of the struggle in a meeting to be held on October 8 in the city.
DSS state organising convenor M Devadas, divisional convenor Shekhar Hejamady, state committee member Shrinivas, Corporators Shashidhar Hegde, Harinath, Amithakala, Congress leaders Ivan D'Souza, Suresh Ballal and Christian leader Dennis D'Silva were present among the protesters.
Govardhan, son of S Narayan, a resident of Bejai Kapikad and a taxi owner-cum-driver by profession, vanished after he dropped four strangers, who hired his car to Karkala on the night of August 25.
It is said that four strangers had hired Govardhan's car from KSRTC bus stand in the city to reach Karkala. At around 7: 15 pm the strangers had approached Govardhan saying that their car had developed snags in Karkala and they wanted to bring it back. At around 9:30 pm Govardhan had called his family and informed that he was in Karkala and would be returning soon.
When Govardhan did not return home till next day morning his family members tried contact him over phone. However both of his cells were switched off. Later they lodged a complaint with Urwa police station.
Govardhana's car was traced near Padubidri very next day. His body was found on Belman-Mundkur Road on August 29.
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