Kolluru and Karkala Rural police registered cases against Jagadish Udupa and Sudeep Shetty, respectively, for posting inflammatory content on Facebook that allegedly promotes communal enmity. Both cases, filed under Section 353(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023, involve posts criticizing the selection of Banu Mushtaq for the Dasara inauguration, deemed provocative and harmful to social harmony.