Bengaluru protesters booked for holding silent marches against Sankey flyover plan

Even as Bengaluru residents welcomed the Karnataka government’s decision to drop the plan to build a flyover on Sankey Road following widespread opposition, some of them learnt that they were booked for having protested against the plan in February.

Only when they started getting notices from the Sadashivanagar police did the protesters come to know they were among 70 people booked on sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), 283 (obstruction to any person in any public way) and 149 (unlawful assembly with common object) of the Indian Penal Code.