Karnataka CM seeks report on alleged police excess during anti-SIR protest

Bengaluru, Oct 13 (UNI) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's deputy and state Congress president D K Shivakumar on Tuesday said he had sought a detailed report on the alleged police high-handedness during an anti-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) protest in Bengaluru, warning that accountability would follow if unnecessary force had been used. Taking to social media, Shivakumar said peaceful protest was a fundamental right in a democracy and stressed that the same standards must apply in Bengaluru as those demanded by the Congress and INDIA bloc during demonstrations in New Delhi against alleged irregularities in the revision of electoral rolls. "We cannot…