Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Feb 20: Four youngsters including a girl had arrived at a hotel at Kuthar Madani Nagar, Ullal on Saturday. Sensing that the incident might get communal overtones, the police intervened, questioned the group, and let them go.

A Hindu girl and three Muslim youth, said to be the students of an engineering college here, had reportedly visited a hotel. Activists of a Hindu organisation alerted the police about the movement of this group, and that they were on a visit to the hotel in question for hookah smoking. Police personnel of Ullal station immediately arrived at the hotel and questioned the students before letting them go. This act eased the situation and stopped it from developing into a communal conflict.

Activists of some organizations had gathered at the spot. As per information, the police had in the past, served notice to this particular hotel once, asking the management to stop the hookah smoking facility. This time again the police have warned the hotel management, it is gathered.