Click to play videoNew Delhi: Keeping up the pressure on Karnataka government to act against the perpetrators of attacks on churches, the Centre on Tuesday dispatched a team of senior Home Ministry officials to the state to review the situation and take stock of the measures taken to restore normalcy.
The team is led by Special Secretary ML Kumawat and he will be accompanied by Joint Secretary (Human Resource) A K Yadav, who will hold discussions with the Chief Secretary and other senior state government officials.
The high-level Home Ministry team will also visit Mangalore, where several churches have been attacked, and review the situation with district officials there.
The team is expected to submit a detailed report to Home Minister Shivraj Patil upon its return to the Capital.
The state has already been put on notice by the Centre which has issued two advisories directing it to take effective steps to control the situation which, the Home Ministry felt, amounted to "breach" of the Constitution and the law of the country.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa asserted that those “breeding intolerance in society will be dealt with mercilessly.”
The state government has also decided to invoke the provisions of the Anti-Goonda Act 1985 against the people indulging in attacks on churches in various districts.
After holding a special meeting of his cabinet in Bangalore, Yeddyurappa said that the police had been given full freedom to book cases under the Act, under which a person involved in such acts could be summarily arrested and detained.
A high level committee will decide on further detention.
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