Shivaji Rao Jadhav was arrested last month for allegedly writing dozens of threatening letters to prominent Karnataka writers. It was a letter he posted from Mandya that gave him away, the police said.
Last year, the campaign led to Muslims being excluded from 60 temple fairs in coastal Karnataka, according to Mohammed Arif, the secretary of the Udupi district street vendors’ association.
At least two days before the saffron scarf and turban wearing students protested against their hijab-wearing classmates at MGM college, a message was circulated to students.
The killing of Praveen Nettaru of the Billava community casts light on deeper caste tensions within the precariously stitched Hindutva alliance in the region.