Mysuru, June 24 -- Earlier, before the post-mortem was performed at MMC&RI mortuary, a large crowd of relatives of the deceased persons and villagers had gathered at the mortuary, who staged protest demanding stringent action against the accused, identified as Ullas Gowda.

When the protest was going on, C.T. Kumar, a close aide of former CM Siddaramaiah and Urban Development Minister Dr. Yathindra Siddaramaiah arrived at the mortuary only to meet stiff opposition from the crowd, who had thought that he (Kumar) had come to hush up the case and expressed their anger.

The protesters said that due to the harassment from accused Ullas Gowda, belonging to an upper caste, three persons belonging to Uppara community lost their lives and added t...