Bus from Bengaluru to Mumbai was attacked in Chitradurga on Friday. Pro-Kannada activists blackened the face of driver Bhaskar Jadhav and assaulted him. A police case has been registered in Karnataka in connection with the alleged attack. A conductor of the state-owned transport corporation bus of Karnataka was allegedly assaulted on the outskirts of the district headquarters town of Belagavi bordering Maharashtra, for not replying to a girl in Marathi. Four people have been arrested in another case for allegedly assaulting the conductor, the police said. The conductor has also been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, they said. A counter case has come from the opposite side, accusing the conductor of misbehaving with the girl, he said. He said he told her that he did not know Marathi and asked her to speak in Kannada. The incident may trigger a problem, police said, pointing out that the region has been witnessing tension because of the border issue for long.
