Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Sep 11: Police personnel attached to Bunder police station here have taken into custody two persons for their involvement in moral vigilance. They reportedly tried to thrash a youth from Kerala, Arjun, who had visited a mall in Hampankatta here with in the company of two girls on September 8. The arrests were made based on video footage in CCTV cameras in the mall.
The arrested accused are Muhammed Harris alias Mansoor from Bantwal, and Abdul Khader from Bajpe. Harris is said to be operating a massage chair business in the said mall.
It is learnt that Arjun had visited the mall along with two girls, one from his own community, and the other, who belonged to another community. A gang of youth had stopped him and questioned him, besides trying to beat him up. By then, youngsters from another community came together to stop the tension.
Bunder police, who arrived at the spot, had accompanied the youth and the two girls to the police station.