More than 20 demonstrators were taken into custody on Thursday for trying to block a highway along the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border during the Karnataka bandh, which was called to protest the Cauvery water dispute. Additionally, police arrested Kannada Jariti Vedike president Manjunath Deva for staging a sit-in to back the Mekedatu Dam project. The bandh was organized by various Kannada groups.

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