Muthalik held for Mysore riots

Police arrested Pramod Muthalik, chief of Sri Ram Sene, a Hindu radical outfit, on Saturday in connection with the recent communal riots in Mysore. Muthalik, who was arrested from state's Belgaum city, is accused of making inflammatory speeches and inciting violence in Mysore on July 2, which claimed three lives. A local court in Mysore on Saturday sent him to judicial custody till Tuesday.