Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RS/CN)
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Mangalore, Nov 4: In a first of its kind, Mangalore north police nabbed nine people red-handed for moral policing on Wednesday November 4.
The guilty were involved in a vigilante attack on the premises of the Government First Grade College in Car Street with the issue being a relationship between two students of different religions.
The arrested all belong to the Bajrang Dal and one of them had earlier been booked in the pub attack case carried out by the Sri Rama Sene. Charan Kumar, Puneeth Raj, Ranjith Raj, Nishith, Ganesh, Mithun, Kishore, Raveesh, and Bharath, are the nine accused.
All the arrested were involved in moral policing on the college premises by assaulting, threatening, and abusing A R Suhail (20), a student of the college. The assailants were allegedly displeased at his friendship with a Hindu girl, who is a fellow student.
Prof Radhakrishna, principal of the college, said that he saw a crowd inside the institution and grasping the situation took necessary action by calling them to a meeting to solve the matter. But by that time they had already assaulted the student.
Amith Singh, assistant superintendent of police, said that prompt information from the college helped the police act immediately and it is a great achievement that the arrests were made on the spot.
The culprits have been booked for rioting, wrongful restraint, voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult with intent to provoke, breach of peace, and criminal intimidation, under the Indian Penal Code.
A student of the college said that a group of three students who have close connections with the Bajrang Dal activists are behind this incident.