Mangalore, May 24: Social activist Vidya Dinakar and four others were arrested by the city police on Thursday after they took Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner N S Chanappa Gowda to task in front of his office for allegedly being indifferent towards the problems being faced by the residents of Melukoppalu and Athrebail areas near Kuloor.
The development comes amidst the intensified protests by the residents against the Mangalore Special Economic Zone's move to reclaim Phalguni river bank to lay corridor road.
Ms Dinakar was arrested around 5:00 pm along with activist Ashok Amin and three residents identified as Jacinta D'Souza, Latha D'Souza and Godfrey.
It is learnt that the five member delegation had visited office of DC to ask him why he failed to visit the river bank near Kuloor to listen to the problems of the residents as promised by him the previous day.
When the DC refused to meet the delegation and moved out of his chamber, Ms Dinakar and others tried to surround him. At this time a brawl broke out between Ms Vidya and a police constable who allegedly pushed her using his baton. Soon the five persons were arrested by the police and taken to the Pandeshwar police station.
Later, non-bailable cases under sections 143 and 149 (member of an unlawful assembly), 147 ( rioting), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 341 (wrongful restraint), and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Indian Penal Code were booked against them.
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