Overview
- Police in Haveri used CCTV footage and a special team to arrest a suspect over damage to a Mahatma Gandhi statue.
- Officers identified the accused as 28-year-old Vaibhav Raikar.
- A court ordered judicial custody and a medical evaluation at the Dharwad Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences.
- Police said the small statue’s right hand was found broken, and residents condemned the act as disrespectful.
- The incident fits a pattern of statue attacks, including a March defacement of a B.R. Ambedkar statue in Uttarakhand.