Summary:
Seeing the sensitiveness of the situation, the Uttara Kannada district administration ordered closure of schools and colleges in Bhatkal on Saturday. Ramachandra Naika, who died, was among the traders operating in the Bhatkal Town Municipal Council’s commercial complex. During the process, Mr.
Naika raised slogans against officials and set himself ablaze. more-inThe 50-year-old trader, who allegedly immolated himself in Bhatkal on Thursday in protest against the eviction of traders from the commercial complex, died on Friday night in a hospital in Manipal. As they had failed to vacate the shops, the municipality officials on Thursday tried to vacate them with police protection..