Bangalore, March 05: JD-S leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today demanded that the state government challenge a local court’s order acquitting the accused in the 2007 bus burning case, in which two persons were charred to death.
The state unit president of JD-S alleged the BJP government had “weakened” the case during the trial and made the “witnesses turn hostile”.
Kumaraswamy said two persons were burnt alive after Bajrang Dal and RSS workers allegedly set fire to a Tamil Nadu bus on September 18, 2007 on Hosur Road in protest against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s statement on Lord Ram during the Sethusamudram project controversy.
Two cases were booked at the time — one against those who allegedly torched the bus, and another in connection with an attack on the house of Karunanidhi’s daughter Selvi here.
—-PTI