Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal
Bantwal, Mar 7: Following a call from a right-wing outfit, the police on Saturday March 7 detained two girls and a boy belonging to different communities who had been to a hotel at Melkar, Panemangalore, to celebrate a birthday.
The police also called the students' parents and the officials of the hostel where they stay, and released them later after the parents executed a bond.
The girls, both college students, stay in a hostel near Panemangalore. On Saturday morning, they had left from the hostel allegedly without informing the warden or the teachers, and gone to a hotel at Birva centre in Melkar. There they reportedly met a male classmate. The locals saw the three of them having tea in the hotel.
Meanwhile, activists of a right-wing outfit noticed the threesome in the hotel and growing suspicious, they informed the police.
As the news spread, locals began to gather outside the hotel. The police too arrived, and took the three students to the police station after chasing away the crowd.
Bantwal town inspector Nandakumar later said that the students had just visited the hotel, but the problem arose after their presence in the hotel was misconstrued and people began gathering there. The students were let off with a warning, he said.