Mangalore: Ten Sene Activists Arrested for Stone Pelting, 24 in Preventive Custody
Daijiworld Media Network- Mangalore (RS/SP)
Feb 12, 2010 - 5.00pm IST
Mangalore, Feb 12: Following the incidents of stone pelting at buses and the ill-affect the bandh had on the normal life of the citizens, the district police have arrested ten persons for the said disturbances, while 24 activists of Sri Rama Sene have been taken into preventive custody, informed the superintendent of police (SP), Dr A S Rao, here on Friday February 12.
Speaking to the media men in the city, Dr Rao revealed that after some incidents of stone pelting were reported early morning on Friday, the policemen arrested ten people allegedly involved with the violent activities. 24 Sri Rama Sene activists, including Prasad Attavar, district convener of the Sene, were earlier taken into preventive custody as a precautionary measure, he added.
Additional police forces have been deployed in sensitive areas to keep constant vigil and regulate untoward incidents, he added.
In the incidents in the city as well as its out skirts, damage to several buses has been reported. A total of nine city buses were damaged by the stone pelting mobs, while two people sustained minor injuries during the stone pelting near Vamanjoor.
The threat posed by Sri Rama Sene and the fear of embracing danger by defying the call, had made some of the shops in the city to down their shutters in the morning. But, by the afternoon, the situation eased and the city returned to normalcy. The stone pelting incidents resulting in damages to some city buses had made some bus operators wary. They had stopped plying their buses thereafter. Express buses and KSRTC buses were not affected by the bundh.
Mangalore : Attack on Mutalik - Sene Bandh Call Fails to Make Impact
Feb 12, 2010 (at 10.30am)
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Feb 12: If the developments in the district so far are any indication, the bandh call given by Sri Rama Sene on Friday in protest against the blackening of the face of their leader Pramod Muthalik at Bangalore on Thursday February 11, has not made much impact.
The movement of vehicles and people in the district has been less since this morning, because of the fact that the day happens to be a holiday for schools, colleges, government offices, banks etc., on account of Shivaratri.
A total of eight buses were damaged in different stone pelting incidents in the district so far. A government bus coming from Mysore to the city became the target of a small stone-pelting mob near Bendorewell in the city at about 6 am. Two city buses were stoned by miscreants at Vamanjoor, while a service bus and a city bus were hit with stones at Neermarga. A city bus in Bejai and a service bus in Farangipet also were targetted with stones.
None were injured in these incidents, except that the windshields were shattered. Several shops have been functional since the morning, and more and more shopkeepers, who appeared to be waiting for the response to the bandh call, are opening their shops as the day is progressing. The police department has been keeping constant vigil on the developments through the policemen stationed at strategic points and the patrol vehicles moving around the city and outskirts.
Reportedly, the policemen had made certain preventive arrests on Thursday night in connection with the bandh call, in order to stop the habitual miscreants from encashing the opportunity and fuelling the disturbances.
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Feb 11, 2010 (11.00pm, IST)
Attack on Muthalik Creates Tension in State; Mangalore Bandh on Feb 12
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (CN)
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Mangalore, Feb 11: Following the incident where the face of Sri Rama Sene supremo Pramod Muthalik was blackened, the city unit of the Sri Rama Sene has called for a ‘bandh’ on Friday February 12.
This was announced by the organization’s spokesperson in the city as soon as news of the attack on Muthalik surfaced.
Tension prevailed across the state with violent incidents being reported from Hubli, Davanagere, Mysore, Belgaum, and other places.
A senior Congress leader’s house in Belgaum was allegedly attacked by the right wing Hindu organization in protest against the attack on Muthalik. The Congress office in Dharwad was also attacked by a group of miscreants.
Daijiworld has received a confirmed report that a Youth Congress leader has owned responsibility for the attack on Muthalik.
Several Hindu organizations in the state have condemned the incident.
Speaking to Daijiworld, a police officer said that strict vigilance was being maintained by the police to avoid any unwanted incidents.
Feb 11, 2010 (09.00pm IST)
Mutalik gets black face for opposing Valentine's Day
Bangalore, Feb 11 :Protesting Sri Rama Sene's plan to disrupt Valentine's Day celebrations Feb 14, a group of people on Thursday blackened the face of its chief Pramod Mutalik.
Mutalik's outfit had threatened, like last year, to marry off people celebrating the V-Day.
Mutalik was participating in a programme near Town Hall in city centre when a group of youth caught hold of him and smeared black colour on his face.
A visibly shaken Mutalik was rescued by his supporters and police later detained six people for the incident.
He fell in the process before police and Srirama Sene activists stepped in.
An angry Mutalik termed those who attacked him as "goondas".
"This is not correct. I will not spare them. They should be punished," Mutalik said.
"We have taken into custody six persons and are interrogating them," C.S. Anand, inspector of Halasur Gate police station, less than a kilometer away from Town Hall, told IANS.
Anand said Mutalik was taking part in a discussion organised by a Kannada TV channel on his outfit's opposition to Valentine's Day celebrations.
The Rama Sene earned notoriety by its attack on women in a pub in the coastal town of Managlore, about 350 km from here, in January 2009.
But Mutalik's threat to disrupt the Valentine's Day celebrations and marry off couples displaying affection to each other in public places fizzled out in the face of widespread condemnation across the country.
B.S. Yeddyurappa, Bharatiya Janata Party's first Chief Minister in Karnartaka, has warned of strict action against any moral policing on Valentine's Day.
The Sene has little support in Karnataka. However, Mutalik hogs the headlines often by his threat to organise agitation on issues like conversion, cow slaughter, terrorism and on occasions like Valentine's Day.