Police file suo motu FIR after man fined for entering temple
The Hindu
Eight, including priest, booked for September 16 incident in Karatagi
Before the Miyapur incident in Kushtagi taluk of Koppal district in which a Dalit family was fined ₹25,000 after its three-year-old child entered a local temple could fade away from public memory, a similar incident has been reported from Karatagi in the that district.
As per information provided by the administration and villagers, Mareppa, a 24-year-old man belonging to Sindolli community of the Scheduled Castes from Rajiv Gandhi Nagar in Karatagi, entered Mahalakshmi Temple in Naganakal village situated on the outskirts of Karatagi and offered puja on September 16.
When he was coming out of the temple, the priest and other villagers took objection to it.
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