Moral policing: Two held in Dakshina Kannada district of coastal Karnataka

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Two persons were arrested connected  the complaint  of abusing a radical  of students from antithetic  religions for being unneurotic  and allegedly assaulting a pupil  connected  November 6, 2025.

Two persons were arrested connected the complaint of abusing a radical of students from antithetic religions for being unneurotic and allegedly assaulting a pupil connected November 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: Illustration by Satheesh Vellinezhi

‘Moral policing’ resurfaced successful Dakshina Kannada territory of Karnataka aft a spread of 4 months with the apprehension of 2 persons connected the complaint of abusing a radical of students from antithetic religions for being unneurotic and allegedly assaulting a pupil connected November 6.

The Uppinangady constabulary gave the names of the arrested persons arsenic Mustafa and Mustafa Periyadka.

According to police, the alleged maltreatment and onslaught took spot astatine Periyadka erstwhile a radical of 10 under-graduate students were connected their mode to the location of their ailing classmate. They near the assemblage connected November 6 greeting successful a bus. They got down astatine a autobus halt and started to locomotion towards their classmate’s location successful Periyadka erstwhile Mustafa and Mustafa Periyadka came successful a motorcycle and blocked the mode of the group.

After ascertaining the names of the students, autochthonal places and college, they allegedly abused the girls successful the radical for hobnobbing with boys from different religion earlier assaulting 1 of the boys successful the group.

On a ailment by the victim, the Uppinangady constabulary registered a lawsuit nether Sections 126(2), 352, 351(2), 115(2), and 353(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against the 2 accused persons.

Earlier successful July, Puttur constabulary had arrested 2 persons successful transportation with a ‘moral policing’ incidental astatine Beeramale Betta successful Puttur. A lad and a miss were talking to each different astatine Beeramale Betta erstwhile the duo confronted them. The duo allegedly insulted the lad and the miss successful nationalist and posted a video of the incidental connected societal media.

The accused had assumed that the lad and the miss were from antithetic religions. But constabulary learnt that they are from the aforesaid religion.

Published - November 07, 2025 03:34 p.m. IST

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