Fifty people have been arrested and charged with rioting in Karnataka's Koppal district after the gates to a temple were broken open and a chariot forcibly taken out despite restrictions in place during the Covid lockdown. G Sangeetha, Superintendent of Police (SP) for the district, told NDTV that the tehsildar had given permission for a puja held annually at the temple in Dotihal village of Kustigi taluk in the north of the state.