Bengaluru police registered a First Information Report (FIR) on May 22, 2025, against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Munirathna following allegations by a 40-year-old woman that he and his associates gang-raped her, urinated on her face, and injected her with an unknown substance suspected to be a deadly virus.
A week after BJP MLA Harish Poonja delivered an Islamophobic speech at an event in a temple at Thekkaru, located in the communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, the temple management issued a letter to the village’s Muslim community, expressing regret over the legislator’s remarks.
On May 5, about 52 families belonging to the Jenu Kuruba tribe marched towards their ancestral village—Karadi Kallu Hatter Kollehaadi—to reclaim their right to live on their land under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006.
A massive number of protestors gathered at Peer Bangali Ground in Karnataka’s Gulbarga on May 4, voicing strong opposition to the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025.