In September this year, an incident of moral policing was reported in Dakshina Kannada’s Sullia Taluk in which a Muslim boy was beaten up and was issued death threats by his college mates for befriending a Hindu girl. Moral policing by right-wing groups is on the rise in Dakshina Kannada district. When we asked them about the incident, Bajrang Dal said they have not done anything,” the police added.
“We are not sure if those who attacked him are members of the Bajrang Dal. We are trying to identify the accused by examining the CCTV footage,” the police said. The couple were coming from Karkala and the incident occurred near Nanthoor circle in Mangaluru,” the police said. The Muslim youth was travelling in the bus when three people dragged him out and thrashed him. “We are assuming it could be moral policing. The police said that while there are reports that members of the Bajrang Dal attacked the Muslim youth, the right-wing organisation has however, denied its involvement in the incident so far. The miscreants then dragged him out of the bus and beat him up with sticks,” the FIR read. They also threatened him if he told anyone about the incident. Near Nanthoor junction, three to four unknown people entered the bus, abused him verbally and thrashed him. “On Thursday, Seyad was returning from Karkala in a private bus at 4pm.
The identity of the woman is not known.Īn FIR has been registered at the Kadri police station. The Muslim youth has been identified as Seyad Raseem Ummar (20), a third year BE (Information Science) student at Nitte Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karkala. The couple were travelling in a bus from Karkala, when three to four unknown men stopped the bus, dragged the Muslim youth out of the vehicle and thrashed him, police said. The incident occurred on Thursday night near Nanthoor circle in Mangaluru. In an alleged case of moral policing, a group of men assaulted a Muslim man, who was travelling with a Hindu woman in Mangaluru on Thursday, police said.
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