'Will recover damages from Bengaluru rioters' Says B S Yediyurappa

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has decided to recover the cost of public and private properties destroyed in the Bengaluru city riots last week from the rioters, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Monday.

"We have decided to recover the cost of the public and private properties damaged or destroyed in the riots from the culprits," said Yediyurappa in a statement after reviewing the situation in the city's riot-hit eastern suburb at a high-level meeting here.

State Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Advocate-General P.L. Navadagi, Director General of Police Praveen Sood, Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant, Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar, Home Secretary Rajneesh Goel, Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) B. Dayanand and Additional Director General of Police (Law & Order) A.K. Pandey participated in the meeting. (IANS) 

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