Karachi Bakery receives threat call over name row
Team Udayavani, Feb 28, 2019, 12:38 PM IST
Bengaluru: A week after 12-15 men stormed into the Karachi Bakery’s Bengaluru outlet the manager of Bakery on Wednesday, February 27 claimed to have received a call threatening to ‘blast the store if the word Karachi was not removed from the name board.
The caller who had called the manager, P Sukumar, identified himself as Vicky Shetty, an underworld don, informed sources.
A case with this regard has been registered at the Indiranagar police station and a probe has been initiated, informed sources.
The incident comes nearly a week after a high Drama that had prevailed outside an outlet of the Hyderabad-based Karachi Bakery in Bengaluru where a group of unidentified people had protested and forced the staff of the bakery to cover half of its signboard and demanded to change its name. However, the manager agreed to put up a Tricolour inside and covered the name Karachi with a banner.
Following the incident the Karachi Bakery’s official Facebook page on Saturday, February 23 clarified that founder of Karachi Bajert Khanchand Ramnani had migrated to India during Partition and the brand was established in 1953. It is an Indian company based out of Hyderabad, Telangana. The post further said that the essence of Karachi Bakery is absolutely Indian and will remain so.
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