Mysuru: Journalist Shivendra Urs, a stringer with The Times of India, Mysuru, was manhandled and illegally confined, allegedly by the supporters of Karnataka’s Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait, when he was covering the Minister’s election campaign at Gayathripuram, under Narasimharaja Assembly segment in city yesterday morning.
In a complaint to the Police and Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar, Urs alleged that he was heckled, intimidated and confined in a room for 20 minutes by Sait’s supporters, when he was on duty in Narasimharaja.
