Mangalore, July 31: Close on the heels of young boys and girls being attacked at a homestay birthday party in Padil by Hindutva activists, another incident of moral policing has been reported in the city on Tuesday.
However, this time, it is the police themselves who donned the role 'moral policemen'.
A group of students who were waiting for a bus at the city's service bus stand were made to appear at the police station for verification of their 'communities' and 'purpose' of travel.
Speaking to Coastaldigest.com, Venugopal, the police constable deployed at the bus stand outpost said that he was asked by a few persons in the bus stand to 'check' what the students were up to.
“Three boys and three girls were waiting for a bus to Udupi when some persons around them sensed that they are up to something immoral. They came and told me that the boys want to take them forcefully to some other place and I informed the Pandeshwar police station about the development. They were all taken to the police station and let off after it was found that they all were students who were traveling together and belonged to the same community”, he said.
When asked if the informers belonged to any particular organisation, the officer said he is not aware of the background of the persons who approached him.
The Pandeshwar police Inspector told Coastaldigest.com that no serious questioning was done and the students were allowed to carry on with their journey after verifying their identities. The students belonged to Mangalore but their names were not noted down, he said.
It can be recalled that one of the victims of the homestay attack has in a statement given to the media revealed that the assaulters had also asked her if there were boys of a particular community in the group, while being assaulted.
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