The Karnataka Assembly came under fire over a video in which the state's Forest Minister Ramanath Rai is seen ordering the Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police (SP) Bhushan Gulabrao Borase to arrest Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat of the RSS. Raising the issue in the Assembly, Former chief minister of Karnataka Jagdish Shettar alleged 'Rai has interfered in political investigation and has no moral rift to continue as a minister. In his defence, Rai denied having issued specific instructions on Bhat's arrest. "There has always been a pattern whenever communal violence has broken out in Dakshina Kannada especially in Kalladka. There is evidence that sangh parivar members were involved in the murder of a panchayat vice-president.

Source: India Today June 20, 2017 09:00 UTC