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The intelligence wing of the Bengaluru City Commissioner's office has filed a complaint against controversial Bangaldeshi writer Taslima Nasreen in connection with the controversial article on burqa that appeared in a vernacular daily that led to large-scale rioting in parts of Karnataka on Monday.
The complaint, which has been filed by Assistant Commissioner of Police R Desai of the intelligence wing, suggests that Nasreen was indirectly responsible for the riots that occurred on Monday.
Nasreen had on Tuesday denied writing the article for the Karnataka newspaper.
The ACP has stated that the motive behind the article was to create a controversy.
He has also blamed an Urdu daily, which had attempted to counter the article, for allegedly provoking many people to go on a rampage in the state.
The complaint has also filed cases against the newspaper's editor, publisher and a reporter, who is believed to have translated the article,
Desai has also filed a complaint against another alleged translator of the article Sindhu, which is believed to be a pseudo name.
Riots broke out in Karnataka following the publishing of the article in a Kannada daily. It is alleged that the published article was a translation of an article written by Taslima. Two people had been killed in police firing in Shimoga, which is the constituency of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.