After the Court granted bail to H D Revanna, his followers celebrated by bursting crackers in Hassan district, on Monday night.
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Holenarsipur (Hassan): Police arrived at Mahatma Gandhi Circle in Holenarsipur of Hassan district on Monday night to disperse JD(S) workers who burst crackers to celebrate the conditional bail granted to their MLA H D Revanna in the ongoing sexual abuse case against his son Prajwal Revanna.
The police explained that bursting crackers is not allowed as the poll code of conduct was in place in the wake of Lok Sabha elections
It may be mentioned that Revanna was in jail from May 4, in an alleged kidnap case of a woman from Mysuru district. He was granted conditional bail on Monday (May 13) evening.
There were heated arguments for a while between Revanna's followers and the police, when they were stopped from bursting crackers.
After the bail was granted on Monday evening, the party members gathered at the circle, raised slogans hailing the names of H D Deve Gowda and H D Revanna. They started bursting crackers to celebrate, when the police arrived on the spot and dispersed the gathering.
They even removed the rolls of crackers from the spot, which irked the JD(S) members which resulted in heated exchange of words.
The party workers also burst crackers and celebrated at Gandasi hand post, Arsikere taluk, in Hassan district.