Bajrang Dal activist killed in Shivamogga a 'terrorist', says foreign journalist; Karnataka DGP reacts

Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood took to Twitter to respond to a foreign journalist's remarks on the death of a Bajrang Dal activist in Shivamogga.

Karnataka's police chief has called out a foreign journalist for referring to Harsha, the Bajrang Dal activist killed in Shivamogga on Sunday, as a "terrorist".

Calling Harsha a "terrorist", journalist CJ Werleman had claimed in a tweet that Bajrang Dal was behind the communal violence that broke out in Tripura in October of last year.

"A terrorist belonging to the Hindu extremist group #BajrangDal, which carried out a wave of terrorist attacks against Muslims in Tripura in November, was killed in Karnataka - last night," Werleman wrote on Twitter.

Reacting to his tweet, Karnataka Director General of Police (DGP) Praveen Sood wrote on Twitter: "This is absolutely false. There is no connection of death to either terrorism or Tripura."

This is absolutely false. There is no connection of death to either terrorism or Tripura. https://t.co/VMv98DRL6H