In a shocker, it has now come to light that one of the people who set afire buses in Bangalore during the cauvery protest was a 22 year old girl. A 22-year-old woman suspected to have instigated the arson attack on 42 buses of a Tamil Nadu-based operator in Bengaluru last week was allegedly offered Rs 100 and a plate of biryani to join the protests over Cauvery water-sharing. She was a daily wager. Bhagya's mother Yellamma has told the media that her daughter was offered Rs 100 and a plate of mutton biryani by "friends" to join the protests. Bhagya stays with her parents in Girinagar, close to the KPN garage, and is a daily wager.

"Bhagya had just returned home around noon (on September 12) when some men known to her came over and asked her to join the protests.They promised to give her biryani and Rs 100 at the end of the day," Yellamma said. She is a native of Raichur and lost her father five years ago. She was living along with her mother close to the KPN bus parking yard and did odd jobs for living. “Investigations revealed that on Monday evening, a few youth who knew Bhagyashree went to her house and asked her to join them in the protest, where she would get biryani,” said a senior police officer, adding that she had confessed to setting one bus on fire. There were over 40 buses parked in the yard, and all of them were torched.