Cauvery water row :Petrol bombs hurled at Chennai hotel owned by Karnataka-based group
Six crude bombs - lit petrol-filled bottles -- were hurled at New Woodlands Hotel on Dr Radhakrishnan Salai in Chennai in the early hours as about 15 people came in three autorickshaws to carry out the attack.
Reports said the hotel's windowpanes and furniture in the reception, an ice cream parlour and an office room were damaged, though no one was injured in the attack.
The attack is being seen as retaliation after an online video showed a Tamil engineering student being thrashed in Bengaluru on Sunday.
The Tamil-speaking student was slapped, kicked and humiliated by a group that accused him of making derogatory comments on Kannada actors and also commenting on the Cauvery dispute.
The Supreme Court is hearing Karnataka's petition that it cannot comply with orders to release 15,000 cusecs of water from the river Cauvery daily to neighbor Tamil Nadu.
Earlier, abiding by the SC order, Karnataka had to release the water for Tamil Nadu and widespread protests rocked the state.
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