18 arrested in radio station ransack

Mysore, Nov 3 (UNI) Police today arrested 18 activists of a pro Kannada organisation on charges of attacking on the private radio station in the city two days ago.

The arrested including the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike's District President Mohan Kumar Gowda. They were produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody today.

The activists attacked the radio station alleging that it aired only Hindi songs on the day of Kannada Rajytosava day on November 1.

They destroyed as many as nine computers and ransacked the office premises. The station director Abinath Kumar has filed a complaint with police in this connection.

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