Mangalore: 'We did not Attack Girls' says Prasad Attavar
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Mangalore, Jan 27: Prasad Attavar, Sri Rama Sena leader who was arrested last night told reporters that, there is no need to raise a hue and cry about the pub attack.
He claimed they did not attack the girls but the boys who brought them to the pub. Attavar is currently being questioned by the police. Despite the nationwide outrage and growing anger over the government dragging its feet, there is still no ban on the group.
Meanwhile eight more activists of the Sri Ram Sena have been taken into custody taking the total number of arrests to 25.
They will be produced in a local court later on Tuesday. But at least 15 others are still at large. According to eye witnesses, there were 40 men who barged into a pub descending to a new low-- physically beating women, dragging them by their hair and assaulting those who tried to intervene.
BJP president Rajnath Singh is in Bangalore and has held a press briefing. He said, "The BJP condemns the pub attack in totality."
He also expressed satisfaction over the state government's handling of the case.
However, the BJP had already claimed that the Sri Ram Sena was an autonomous group and had nothing to do with it or the Sangh parivar.
On his part, Pramod Mutthalik, the chief of the Sri Ram Sena continues to be on the run, but is available on his cell phone.
He was expected to arrive at Hubli in Karnataka late on Monday night but there is still no word on his whereabouts. Speaking to NDTV on Monday, he said that girls going to pubs is not acceptable and whatever his men did was right. He even accused the media of highlighting this small incident to malign the BJP government in the state.
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