A 24 year old woman was sent to jail for holding a ‘Free Kashmir’ placard. The woman activist, Ardra alias Annapurna Narayan was arrested and sent to central prison for 14-day judicial custody after we booked a suo motu case against her under sections 153A and 153B of the IPC for holding a placard with anti-national slogans in Kannada at Town Hall in the city”, deputy commissioner of police (central) Chetan Singh Rathod was quoted as having said.
This is the second arrest in the city for anti-national activities following the detention of Amulya Leona who shouted Pakistan Zindabad at an anti-CAA rally. Incidentally both the women are lodged in the same cell in the women’s ward of Parpanna Agrahara jail.
