Mangaloreans raise their voice against moral policing

Mangaloreans raise their voice against moral policing

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, August 11, 2012: Speaking at an interactive session on moral policing and Indian culture held in Mangalore, Prof. Ravivarma Kumar, former chairman of the Backward Classes Commission of Karnataka and former lawyer, said that the home stay attack proves that the state’s constitutional machinery has broken owing to which the government must dissolve the government and impose presidential rule on the state. 

Flaying C. Manjula, chief of the State Women’s Rights Commission, and the state government, he said that they are acting as if they are the agents of the accused. Commenting on C. Manjula’s report, he said that she has accused students of consuming drugs even when the police had given them a clean chit, adding that defamation cases can be filed against her for making such statements.

Stating that the government has set free those accused in the pub attack of 2009 and in the church attacks of 2008, he said that the government is guilty of withdrawing a number of cases booked against the culprits even when the Supreme Court has ordered that the government cannot withdraw cases even under pressure. 

He urged the Hindu community to strongly convey to organizations such as the HJV that they do not require them. 

Writer B. T. Lalita Nayak said that nobody has the right to tell young people how to live their lives, adding that one cannot refer to the Puranas to decide what is right or wrong for today. 

Advocate Taranath Shetty, former president of the Mangalore Bar Council, said that the state government is favoring the accused to such an extent that they have filed an affidavit accusing the Lokayukta police of influencing the court. He said that, if this state of affairs continues, the culprits will be given a clean chit soon. 

Kripa Amar Alva, member of the AAI advisory board, said that she had experienced police apathy back in 1992 when her husband Amar Alva was murdered.  

The mother of Gurudutt Kamath, one of the home stay attack victims, flayed C. Manjula for alleging that she is involved in trafficking. She also said that her family has been facing a tough time after the attack. 

Prakash of Puttur, an active member in saffron outfits in his college days, warned young people of the spreading saffron influence in college campuses, adding that they are political in nature. He said that saffron groups have grown strong in Mangalore because the people of Mangalore have chosen to remain quiet. 

Prof. Kumar urged citizens to fight against saffron influences without resorting to hatred. He suggested that they should fight in a constitutional manner and not take the law in their own hands.