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Puttur : Moral policemen assault 2 Muslim students for having Eid party with Hindu girls


Mangalore Today News Network

 Puttur, Aug 9, 2013 : In a moral policing incident reported from  Puttur on August 8, Thursday, activists of a Hindu organization  threatened and attacked two Muslim students who hosted an Eid party   to their  friends  including  Hindu girls.


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The injured students namely Abdul Samad  (21) and Mohammad Jalal (18) of Keremoole in Chikkamudnur  village have been admitted to Mahaveera Hospital. Abdul Samad is an MSW student of Srinivas College in Mangalore while  Jalal is a second PUC student at Pragathi Study Centre of Puttur.

 It is learnt, the  two boys had invited MSW students Dikshith, Lohila, Shwetha and Vishwalatha who had come for field work of Dharmasthala Rural Development Project  at Puttur,  for a Ramzan party at Hotel Lakshmi in the heart of Puttur.

When the  students were having lunch, they were threatened by  three persons including Sachin and Sooraj for having food with Hindu girls.Later, when the students were heading towards Salmara in an auto they were reportedly intercepted by a group of ten persons including Sachin, Sooraj Chandrasingh, Avinash and Ganesh  who took them to an isolated location and assaulted the two boys.