Bengaluru: The CCB police named as many as 317 persons in the FIR in connection to violence in KG Halli, DG Halli police limits.
Khalim Pasha, husband of BBMP corporator Irshad Begam has been arrested for instigating the mob on Thursday mid night.
“We have arrested 60 more persons for their role in the recent Bengaluru riots,” Central Crime Branch (CCB) Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Kuldeep Jain told IANS.
Till now over 200 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence.
Meanwhile, on Thursday mid night, city police hired two KSRTC buses and shifted 80 accused named in the FIR to Ballari prison.
The police cracked the whip and reportedly went searching the houses of the rioters and nabbed them.
They are shifted following the feedback that they may create law and order problems if they are kept in the Parappana Agrahara prison.
Meanwhile, seven police teams headed by Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sandeep Patil are investigating the riots.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister CN Ashwath Narayan said: “Every rioter and arsonist involved in any way will be hunted down by our government no matter where they are hiding.”
He said the scale of the violence points to its organised nature.
On Tuesday night, hundreds of people ran amok after Pulikehsinagar’s Congress MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy’s nephew Naveen posted a derogatory message on the social media.
The mobs pelted stones, injured 60 policemen, and committed acts of vandalism and arson in DJ Halli, KG Halli, Pulikeshinagar and Kaval Byrasandra areas, leaving the affected places resembling a war zone.
