Mangalore: Miscreants' Threat Forces Students to Cancel  College Tour 
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network- Mangalore (RS)

Mangalore, Feb 13:  Despite the assurance of full security by the top police officials, Mangalore is still showing room for threat and violence.  When people started taking a sigh of relief after the soft stand on Valentine's day by Rama sene, the arrest of Rama Sene leaders and deployment of security personnel around the city and assurance by top cop DGP Ajay Singh, another irritating incident was reported from Mangalore city limits late  Friday night.

A  bus  hired by students of P A Engineering College Mangalore for their college tour  , en route to Bangalore was  stopped  near A B Shetty  circle by miscreants at 10 pm , Friday 13 February,  after threatening   its  driver.

The bus owned H N  travels was  booked  by the  students  of  P A  engineering college to take them on their annual educational  tour to  Bangalore.

It is reported that the bus was on its way to pick up students from Pandeswara area when it was stopped near A B Shetty circle by unknown persons who came on bikes.

The driver who was visibly upset over their threats refused to move the bus from the spot.  Within a short span of time, people started gathering, and police arrived at the spot.  The police, however, asked driver to move the bus away.

Circle   inspector Thilakachandra,  who  rushed to the  spot  said, he  assured an escort of two police jeeps  to  continue the  tour , but driver refused .
 
According to the College sources the tour has been cancelled.

The incident adds yet another black mole on the city's ongoing problems.

No group has yet claimed any responsibility over the incident.  The motive behind the whole episode is also not known.