Bagalkot: Mahalingapura Police have booked a suo motu case against 700 farmers following the incident of a trailer of tractors carrying sugarcane being set on fire on the premises of the sugar factory in Samirvadi of Saidapur recently.

The case was registered based on a complaint filed by Sub-inspector Terdala, which accused the farmers, including 17 leaders, of attempt to murder by stone-pelting and obstructing government employees from attending to their duties.

Farmer leader Gangadhar Meiti, who has been named as the 17th suspect in the case, is reportedly on a tour of Delhi with his family for the last one week and has challenged the charges against him. Meiti has insisted that he had not participated in the protest by sugarcane farmers in Mudhol and expressed displeasure over the Po

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