Bengaluru: Amidst tight security, police on Thursday foiled attempted rail blockades across southern Karnataka by angry mobs protesting against the state releasing the Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu.
According to reports, several protesters at Shivamogga, Hubballi and Dharwad in the state’s central and northern regions, were taken into preventive custody and thwarted from stepping on rail tracks to block trains on the Bengaluru-Belagavi route. Holding flags and raising slogans against Karnataka and Tamil Nadu governments, the activists took out a protest rally to Mysore Bank circle from Town Hall in Bengaluru and tried to break the heavy security cordon to enter the main city station.