After spending 13 days in prison, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike President T.A. Narayana Gowda was released on bail in two cases on Wednesday.
Mr. Gowda was arrested on December 27, 2023, in a case connected to a protest rally against non-Kannada signboards that degenerated into vandalism. He was released on bail in that case on Tuesday, when K.S. Layout Police re-arrested him, executing a non-bailable warrant pending against him in a case booked against him in 2017.
The court remanded him in judicial custody posting the bail hearing to Wednesday. Though the hearing was conducted through video conference and granted bail, the Halasuru gate police waiting outside the prison arrested him again in another old case that dates back to 2020 and took him to the court amidst tight security on Wednesday.