Functionaries of district unit of Karanataka Rakshana Vedike staged a torchlight protest at Gandhi Park in the town on Thursday night condemning police excesses on farmers during Mahadayi agitation in Naragund and Navalgund taluks recently. They raised slogans against the police and condemned the atrocity against those who were agitating for water.
The functionaries demanded that cases registered against the farmers and other innocent people, including students, be withdrawn immediately.
Disciplinary action should be taken against the higher police officials also who are responsible for the atrocity on agitators, they said.
Vedike district president M.K. Raghavendra, general secretary V. Muniraju participated among others.