“On December 31, there were eight such incidents in Mumbai. Some girls were raped. Why is the Centre silent about it?” Pramod Mutalik
Sri Ram Sena allegedly takes law in their own hands to drive off the girls/boys from a Pub (a place where people go to drink alcohol) in Mangalore. According to Mr.Mutalik, the police did not take any action against the pub owner even though local residents complained about the illicit activities going inside it.........
National Commission of Women, The Congress Party, some media channels including Times Now, NDTV Ltd and some other socio-political organisations comes to the rescue of girls who were allegedly having drinks (alcohol) and perfoming/doing some illicit activities, inside that pub........
Should people (vested interest groups) give encouragement and shelter to Drunkards, Drug Addicts, Prostitutes (or Prostitution in public places), etc....??!! Just take some minutes from your busy schedules and think....
It is known to all how strong the domestic liquor lobby is.....and even the Indian Government gets huge amounts of revenues from these liquor companies---so the pub-culture continues.....
Ram Sena on pub attack: We're custodians of Indian Culture
MANGALORE: Sri Ram Sena (SRS) founder Pramod Mutalik has said there is no need to raise a hue and cry about the Mangalore pub attack on women on Saturday. He also said that the SRS activists did not attack the girls but the boys who had brought them to the pub.
On Monday, the Mangalore police arrested seven more SRS activists taking the total to 20. The 13 arrested earlier on Sunday were remanded to judicial custody till January 27.
The Dakshina Kannada district police have served a notice on the electronic media for their failure to inform the police about the attack. Commenting on the incident, Mutalik told TOI that women were being misused and misguided. “We oppose this. Women have to be protected as the law has failed. Parents are worried about their wards going astray in materialistic pursuits. We are the custodians of Indian culture,” he said.
Mutalik is the national president of the right-wing political group, Rashtriya Hindu Sena. The SRS, founded in late 2007, is its militant outfit. When it was pointed out that several girls had been assaulted by the SRS activists, Mutalik said, “I apologize if such a thing has happened. The mode of execution was wrong. But there is no need to raise such a hue and cry about the incident.”
He further claimed that the brouhaha over the incident was an attempt to sully the name of the BJP state government.
“On December 31, there were eight such incidents in Mumbai. Some girls were raped. Why is the Centre silent about it?” he asked. Three major radical outfits in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district operate with three different agendas. These right-wing groups operate without treading on each other’s toes. Bajrang Dal opposes conversions. Hindu Janajagrithi Samithi works against denigrating Hindu gods in any form.
The main agenda of SRS is putting an end to fashion shows, which they say denigrates Hindu culture. SRS is an offshoot of the Bajrang Dal. It was born as the Karnataka unit of the Shiv Sena, when Bajrang Dal state convener Pramod Mutalik walked out in a huff after being sidelined by the BJP over cow slaughter. Since then the Karnataka unit of the Shiv Sena has ceased to exist and SRS was born in 2007 after Shiv Sena took a pro-Maharashtra stand on the Belgaum issue.
The Dakshina Kannada district police have served a notice on the electronic media for their failure to inform the police about the attack. Commenting on the incident, Mutalik told TOI that women were being misused and misguided. “We oppose this. Women have to be protected as the law has failed. Parents are worried about their wards going astray in materialistic pursuits. We are the custodians of Indian culture,” he said.
Mutalik is the national president of the right-wing political group, Rashtriya Hindu Sena. The SRS, founded in late 2007, is its militant outfit. When it was pointed out that several girls had been assaulted by the SRS activists, Mutalik said, “I apologize if such a thing has happened. The mode of execution was wrong. But there is no need to raise such a hue and cry about the incident.”
He further claimed that the brouhaha over the incident was an attempt to sully the name of the BJP state government.
“On December 31, there were eight such incidents in Mumbai. Some girls were raped. Why is the Centre silent about it?” he asked. Three major radical outfits in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district operate with three different agendas. These right-wing groups operate without treading on each other’s toes. Bajrang Dal opposes conversions. Hindu Janajagrithi Samithi works against denigrating Hindu gods in any form.
The main agenda of SRS is putting an end to fashion shows, which they say denigrates Hindu culture. SRS is an offshoot of the Bajrang Dal. It was born as the Karnataka unit of the Shiv Sena, when Bajrang Dal state convener Pramod Mutalik walked out in a huff after being sidelined by the BJP over cow slaughter. Since then the Karnataka unit of the Shiv Sena has ceased to exist and SRS was born in 2007 after Shiv Sena took a pro-Maharashtra stand on the Belgaum issue.
All these outfits operate with impunity, without fear of the law. Meanwhile, Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa said it was unfortunate that people had taken the law into their hands. “We have given a free hand for the police to arrest them,” he said.
Times View
Organisations like the Sri Ram Sena are emboldened to act as they did in Mangalore because the cost-benefit equation works out very well for them. The benefit from such boorish moral policing is in the form of national publicity that lures fresh recruits to the ‘cause’. And the cost is possible arrest and a very short jail term. It’s important, therefore, to raise the costs. In this case, for instance, they could be charged under Section 153A that deals with offences against public tranquillity and carries a sentence of up to three years. It must be used not just against the actual miscreants, but also office-bearers of the Sena. Rigorous prosecution leading to conviction should help persuade them to desist from such anti-social behaviour in future.
Times View
Organisations like the Sri Ram Sena are emboldened to act as they did in Mangalore because the cost-benefit equation works out very well for them. The benefit from such boorish moral policing is in the form of national publicity that lures fresh recruits to the ‘cause’. And the cost is possible arrest and a very short jail term. It’s important, therefore, to raise the costs. In this case, for instance, they could be charged under Section 153A that deals with offences against public tranquillity and carries a sentence of up to three years. It must be used not just against the actual miscreants, but also office-bearers of the Sena. Rigorous prosecution leading to conviction should help persuade them to desist from such anti-social behaviour in future.
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