Mangaluru : Police have arrested two men on the charges of moral policing in the city on Monday evening. The duo had followed a young man and a woman who were travelling in a two-wheeler for the sole reason that they belonged to different communities. They had intercepted the two-wheeler and had questioned the riders. […]

Mangaluru : Police detained four persons in connection to a moral policing case on Saturday December 11. The arrested are identified as Prakash, Ranjith, Raghavendra and Pawan. Two among them are said to be the driver and conductor of the bus the couple was travelling in.  The moral policing incident took place on Friday December […]

Mangaluru : The Moodbidri police on Saturday arrested two persons on the charge of indulging in moral policing by abusing two women travelling in a car. The arrested were identified as Samhithraj (36) and Sandeep Poojary (34) City Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar said the incident occurred on Moodbidri outskirts on Saturday morning. About six to eight […]

Mangalutu : The Congress threatened on Wednesday that it will sit on dharna in front of the Surathkal police station from Thursday if the police did not arrest all those involved in Sunday’s ‘moral policing’ incident which took place at Surathkal toll plaza and invoke stringent provisions against the accused. Addressing presspersons, MLC and Dakshina […]

Suratkal: Mangaluru police arrested three persons in connection with the moral policing incident at Mukka beach here. The arrested have been identified as Sunil (40), Vasanth (42) and Sukeeth (23). The victim, Abdul Rehman Bisirat in his complaint said that he was strolling on the beach in the company of a girl when the group […]

Mangaluru : The sixth additional district and sessions court here on Friday convicted five persons of assaulting a youth of a minority community outside a mall in 2016 for watching a movie with a girl from the majority community. The court fined them Rs 21,000 each, defaulting which they’ll serve eight months’ simple imprisonment. Judge […]

Udupi: AAP strongly condemned the murder of Praveen Poojari in Udupi by the self-appointed “cow-vigilantes” of Hindu activists. A delegation by the AAP members of coastal region met Praveen’s family and offered condolences and support. The state government has completely failed in controlling the law and order, especially in the coastal region, where the situation […]

Mangaluru : City Police Commissioner M. Chandra Sekhar has sought a report from a police inspector attached to the Konaje police station on the reported attempt by members of a right-wing organisation to assault a boy and girl in a lodge in Deralakatte on Monday. It was reported in the media that the members of […]

Mangaluru : Civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad on Friday said that collective action alone could tackle fundamentalist forces involved in moral policing and those fomenting communal trouble. Delivering a special lecture at a programme organised by the Citizens Forum for Mangalore Development at School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, in Mangaluru on Friday, she said […]

Mangaluru : Superintendent of Police Sharanappa S.D. on Wednesday has urged the media and others not to use the word “moral policing” and instead call it “immoral rowdyism” Mangaluru : Superintendent of Police Sharanappa S.D. on Wednesday has urged the media and others not to use the word “moral policing” and instead call it “immoral […]