Mangaluru, June 30, 2023 (PPI-OT): The Hindutva fanatics assaulted five youngsters in Indian southern state Karnataka. A group of youngsters comprising two Muslims and a Hindu boy along with two Hindu girls was on a sightseeing tour from Mangaluru to Madikeri in Karnataka’s Kodagu district. After visiting Abbey Falls, they parked their car in Madikeri and hired a jeep to travel to Mandalpatti Peak.When the youngsters returned to the spot where they had parked the car, they were surrounded by about 30 Hindutva fanatics, who violently questioned the inter-religious nature of the group.
The three boys were beaten up and their two female friends were verbally abused by the Hindutva mob. The attackers questioned the presence of two Muslims -Mohammed Shamseer (24), Saman Sajeed (23) in the group. The mob beat up all three youths. The girls were verbally abused for their “bad character.” The mob punctured the tires of the car in which the victims traveled from Mangaluru to Madikeri. They also took pictures of the group and circulated them on social media. Prima facie this pertains to the case of moral policing involving suspected Hindutva BJP/RSS. Banjrang Dal, VHP wing activists. This region of Karnataka is notorious for Hindutva fanatics mostly after the BJP/RSS government who prowl at such instances of interfaith friendship.
On the basis of a complaint filed by Nanda Krishnan (26), a case has been registered at the Madikeri rural police. The Congress government in Karnataka state has hinted that it will not tolerate such kind of moral policing in the state. Congress’s Chittapur MLA, Priyank Kharge said the Congress will ban the RSS if it tries to disrupt peace in the state. In reply to this, Karnataka BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel warned the Congress if it tries to ban Bajrang Dal or the RSS, it will “burn the entire state into ashes.”
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