The Hindu Samajotsava, which had turned the entire city into saffron, concluded at around 7:00 pm. Thousands of people, who had converged at Nehru Maidan dissolved immediately after Togadia ended his speech.
“I really felt happy to be a part of massive Hindu gathering here. However I don't agree with Togadia, who viewed Muslims as enemies of Hindus. Actually I borrowed money from a Muslim friend to come here,” said Noothan, a college student from Moodbidri, who had recently joined ABVP.
Ramaswamy from Polali, who had been brought to Samajotsava in a private bus along with dozens of others, was overwhelmed by the speech of Togadia, despite the fact that he could not understand what he said. “I cannot understand Hindi, but, really liked Togadia's daring speech,” Ramaswamy said.
Bus service begins:
The traffic diversion was stopped immediately after Togadia stopped his speech in order to facilitate the participants of Hindu Samajotsava to go home as early as possible.
The buses which started plying from State Bank after a gap of almost five hours, were overcrowded with saffron-clad passengers.
The movement of vehicles in the city was diverted from 2 pm to 6 pm in view of the massive procession which started from Dr BR Ambedkar Circle and culminated at the Nehru Maidan.
However, contrary to the expectation of the organizers, only around four thousand people, all of them activists of Hindutva outfits, took part in the Shobha Yatra.
Picketing:
Superintendent of Police A Subrahmanyeshwara Rao said that the district police has deployed pickets in the sensitive areas to prevent possible untoward incidents while thousands of people return home in groups after participating in Hindu Samajotsava.
“We have taken all precautionary measures to avoid any untoward incidents especially in sensitive areas,” he said.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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