Hyderabad, Aug. 3 -- In a shocking incident, the Karnataka police arrested three men for allegedly poisoning a government school water tank with pesticides in order to frame its Muslim headmaster and create communal unrest. Thirteen school children fell ill after consuming the contaminated water.

The incident occurred in a lower primary government school in Hoolikatti village of Belagavi district. The three men - Krishna Madar, Sagar Patil, and Naganagouda Patil - have been sent to judicial remand and are lodged in Hindalga jail, Belagavi superintendent of police Bhimashankar Guled said.

According to police, Sagar and Naganagouda wanted to remove the school headmaster, Sulaiman Gorinayak, and kept pressuring the authorities. Sagar owns ...