Traffic movement on the busy Srirangapatana-Bidar State Highway was disrupted for more than an hour near Devapur Cross in Surpur taluk of Yadgir district on Monday.
Hundreds of people, from various parts of the district, staged a protest and blocked the road demanding action against fake caste certificate holders immediately.
The protesters, who came together under the banner of Maharishi Valmiki Sangha and Dalita Sanghatanegala Samanvaya Samiti, alleged that many people who do not originally belong to the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe community in Bidar, Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Koppal and Raichur district, have obtained fake SC and ST caste certificates from the authorities.
Government officials are involved in this illegal act, they said.
