Mangaluru: The district police have arrested six persons in connection to five cases of pelting on KSRTC buses on Saturday during a hartal call given by Hindu right wing organisations protesting Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s visit to the city.

They six were arrested as per cases registered in Belthangady, Bantwal rural and town police station limits, it is learnt.

Kavan Kumar (23), Achyuth, Aatish (26), Praveen (28), Mukesh (26) and Kishore (28) were identified as the accused.

They were booked under sections 427 of IPC and section 2(A) of Karnataka Prevention of Destruction of Loss of Property Act, 1981 and were produced before a jurisdictional court.