Temple entry: Five arrested after Dalit family fined in Koppal district
The Hindu
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Five people, including the priest of a local temple at Miyapur village in Kushtagi taluk of Koppal district, have been arrested after a Dalit family was fined ₹25,000 when a three-year-old child entered the temple.
Following a complaint by Balachandra Sanganal, Assistant Director of Social Welfare Department, Kushtagi, the police registered a First Information Report (FIR) under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of. Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015, and Sections 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Indian Penal Code at Kushtagi police station late on Tuesday.
The police have arrested all the five people named in the complaint: Karakappa Pujari, Hanumagouda, Gavisiddappa Myageri, Virupakshagouda Myageri, and Sharanagouda, all residents of Miyapur village.
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