Belagavi, Feb. 26 -- The family of the 17-year-old who accused a bus conductor, at the centre of the latest flare-up in the Karnataka-Maharashtra language dispute, of misbehaving with her on board a Karnataka state bus issued a video statement on Tuesday withdrawing their complaint filed under the Pocso Act.

In the video statement, purportedly released by the girl's family, a woman, believed to be the girl's mother said that an altercation happened over a bus ticket but it was being falsely projected as a language dispute.

"We are also affectionate about Kannada, there is no discrimination in this. Unnecessarily false propaganda is being done in the name of Kannada and Marathi," she said in the video.

HT could not independently verify ...