Bengaluru: In a bizarre incident, raged agitators ended up locking Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner G Kumar Naik in Kannahalli garbage processing facility on Magadi Road on Tuesday.

It is said that on Tuesday, Naik had visited the garbage processing facility, along with the BBMP officials and media personnel to talk of the initiatives taken by the BBMP to deal with garbage.

Simultaneously, locals who were irked by the facility and the various inconvenience caused by the same, locked the 24-acre plant and raised slogans against the BBMP. In the episode, the Commissioner and BBMP officials remained locked inside the unit for a few minutes.

The villagers did not just demand Kumar to wind up this plant but also said that the Seegehalli waste processing plant too must stop functioning, failing which they would consume poison. The Kannahalli-Seegehalli Kasa Vilevari Horata Samiti, which is fighting against the said plants has set a deadline of January 3 for the Palike to stop garbage trucks from entering the Kannahalli unit.

It was only after Naik assured the agitators that a meeting would be held soon to discuss the problems faced by the local people that the gates were opened.

Kumar said presently about 1,200 tonnes of wet waste are being processed and in three months time, the processing capacity will be increased to 2,350 tonnes daily.

The locals have been complaining of odour emanating from the plant, which has hijacked their right for clean and fresh breathing air.