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Embarrassed by 'Hindutva molestation' BJP govt. rushes top cop to Mangalore

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July 29, 2012

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Mangalore, July 29: Embarrassed by the brutality of the Hinduvta activists, who molested girls and thrashed boys, who were having a party at a private home-stay in Mangalore, the BJP-led Government on Sunday rushed a top police official to probe the incident, which has triggered protests.

As the attack in which about a dozen girls and boys were targeted by a 50-member group, suspected to be members of 'Hindu Jagaran Vedike', came as an embarrassment with opposition parties flaying it, the government has asked ADGP (Law and Order) Bipin Gopalkrishna to visit Mangalore to get first-hand information about the incident.

Gopalkrishna visited the home-stay at Padil, on the outskirts of the city, where the incident took place. Inspector General of Police (Western Range) Prathap Reddy and Mangalore City Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh were also present.

Twenty persons were taken into custody yesterday in connection with the incident which sparked off protests by various groups both in support of and against the outfit, forcing police to use mild lathicharge to disperse the agitators.

This is the second major incident of moral policing in Mangalore after the January 24, 2009 attack on a pub by right wing organisation Srirama Sene.

The incident caused embarrassment to the BJP Government as opposition party leaders targeted it for its 'failure' to check pro-Hindu activists and their moral policing.


Related:

'Custodians of Hindu culture' barge into party; molest girls

Did TV channel crew enjoy molestation of helpless girls by Hindutva activists?

Hindutva activists taken into custody for violating Section 144

Media's role in homestay attack being looked at: ADGP



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