Overview

• Police registered the FIR on their own after footage emerged of five activists being bound to a tree and beaten in Ingali village.
• Four villagers were detained on Monday for allegedly assaulting the activists during the June 28 incident in Hukkeri taluk.
• The conflict began on June 26 when Sri Rama Sene members intercepted a cattle transporter, accusing him of illegal slaughter—a claim the driver denies, saying the cows were for dairy.
• Superintendent Bheemashankar S. Guled said the violence erupted after the activists allegedly trespassed into a villager’s home and insisted there was no communal motive.
• Despite police urging them to press charges, the assaulted activists have declined to lodge formal complaints as investigations continue.