Sagar Patil is a taluk-level president of the anti-Muslim Hindu extremist group Sri Ram Sene in Karnataka. He is charged with poisoning a school’s drinking water to provoke backlash against its Muslim headmaster. 

On 14 July 2025, in Karnataka’s Belagavi, a government school’s drinking water tank was poisoned, causing twelve students to fall ill. Three people were arrested for the crime, including Sagar Patil. 

According to the police, Patil aimed to create panic and suspicion around Headmaster Suleman Gorinaik, who has been in service at the Government Lower Primary School in Hulikatti for the past 13 years in Karnataka’s Belagavi district. This was reportedly done in order to remove the Muslim headmaster from his post and malign his reputation.

A  fifth-grade student reported that he had been given a bottle containing a harmful substance and instructed to pour it into the water tank by one of the accused, Krishna Madar, who claimed that he had acted under duress and was blackmailed by Patil.