Some activists belonging to pro-Kannada outfits were on Monday taken into preventive custody here when they staged protests against the Supreme Court adjourning to October 12 the plea filed by Karnataka on the Cauvery water issue.
The activists staged protests in front of the Income Tax office here, sources said.
Madegowda, president of a committee spearheading the protests, who is on a relay fast at Mandya, the hotbed of the Cauvery stir, demanded resignation of chief minister Jagadish Shettar and urged him to join the on-going agitation.
He also demanded the government stop release of water to Tamil Nadu with immediate effect. Gowda reiterated his demand for mass resignation of Union ministers representing Karnataka, MLAs and MPs.