Three Rangayana Kalaburagi artistes booked for misbehaviour

Team Udayavani, Apr 10, 2018, 4:42 PM IST

Kalaburagi: Three artistes of Rangayana Kalaburagi have been booked for misbehaving with female artistes and Rangayana Kalaburagi chief under the influence of alcohol. 

The accused are Beeranna Malappa Pujari, Devindra Gurunath Badiger and Mohan Kumar Sharanappa Hulimani. In his complaint, Rangayana director Mahesh V Patil said that the episode happened on April 8 when the artistes were occupied in a practice. 

The trio, who were heavily drunk, went to the venue and misbehaved the artistes. They abused the artistes in foul dialect and undermined him when he intervened and requesting that they behaved appropriately, Patil included in the complaint. 

The accused have been reserved under the IPC 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 560 (criminal intimidation), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 34 ( acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention).

It isn’t the first occasion when that police have booked Rangayana Kalaburagi artistes. A case was enrolled on February 9, 2016, against artiste Lakshmi Karoji and her husband. The couple was blamed for hiring goons for assaulting a Dalit artiste Mahesh Kumar. The police arrested her after the complaint was filed.