M'lore: Muthalik, Attavar to Spend Valentine's Day in Custody
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RS/CN)
Mangalore, Feb 13: Sri Rama Sena chief Pramod Muthalik, Prasad Attavar, local convenor of the Sena, along with 139 members of the organization statewide, have been arrested on Friday February 13.
They have been remanded to judicial custody till Monday February 16.
The arrests come as a preventive measure ahead of Valentines Day which falls on Saturday February 14.
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Attavar and three others were taken into custody in the city as they were returning from a press meet at Woodlands Hotel.
DGP Ajay Kumar Singh refused to go into details about the arrests and called it a technical matter.
No Marriage, No Violence—Only Legal Measures
Just before his arrest Prasad Attavar said in a press meet, “We decided to drop our plan to arrange marriage for those participating in Valentines Day because some parties were taking undue advantage of our activity. But our message to the parents not to allow their children to participate in Valentine's Day celebration still holds good. Our actions will be within the legal parameter and no forcible or violent action will be taken".