2 arrested for attack on Dalit farmer

Nearly a month after the gruesome attack on a Dalit farmer in Kataje near here, the Dakshina Kannada police have arrested the prime accused in the case from Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh, police said.
Gopalakrishna Gowda, who allegedly chopped off the fingers of the left hand of Sundara Malekudiya, a tribesman, with a weed-clearing machine on July 26, was absconding since then.
Gowda, 67, was arrested from a guest house in Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh on August 22, theys aid.
Gowda had allegedly attacked Sundara with three others over a land dispute at Kataje in Belthangady taluk in the district.

The police also arrested Vasantha Gowda, another accused, from a resort near Gorur in Hassan district on the same night, district Superintendent of Police S D Sharanappa said, adding there was no laxity on part of the police in tracing the culprits.
The accused, who were produced before the local court, had been remanded to judicial custody.