As many as 90 workers and office-bearers of Popular Front of India (PFI) and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) were taken into preventive custody across Karnataka.
“In a special eight-hour operation carried out across the State from 3 a.m. to 11 a.m., as many as 90 people who could disturb public order have been detained,” Alok Kumar, Additional Director General of Police, (Law and Order), said. Preventive detentions were made under Sections 107 and 110 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), based on information that the person is likely to commit a breach of peace or disturb public tranquility.
