A conductor of the state-owned transport corporation bus was assaulted on Friday for not replying to a passenger in Marathi on the outskirts of the district headquarters town of Belagavi bordering Maharashtra, police sources said.<\/p>\n
With tears in his eyes, the 51-year-old conductor Mahadevappa Mallappa Hukkeri told reporters that a woman who boarded the bus with her male companion at Sulebhavi village spoke in Marathi.<\/p>\n
Hukkeri said he told her that he did not know Marathi and asked her to speak in Kannada.<\/p>\n
“When I said I don’t know Marathi, the woman abused me saying that I must learn Marathi. Suddenly a large number of people gathered and assaulted me on my head and all over the body,” the conductor said.<\/p>\n
The injured bus conductor has been admitted to the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences, police said adding he has got minor injuries and is out of danger.<\/p>\n
Following the incident, pro-Kannada activists staged a protest and demanded that the people involved in the attack should be arrested.<\/p>\n
This incident is likely to flare up the border row, which triggers from time to time.<\/p>\n
Belagavi has a substantial Marathi-speaking population and a section among them have been demanding the merger of the district with Maharashtra, which is stoutly opposed by the state as well as the Kannada populace residing there.<\/p>\n
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