Mangaluru: Following the case of moral policing, in which an attempt to assault a youth was foiled by the timely intervention of the police, the Mangaluru North police on Wednesday arrested one person, who allegedly confronted and harassed a group of students outside a mall on Tuesday.
After questioning, he was released on bail as he was booked under the bailable offences of Sections 143 (being member of unlawful assembly), 149 (offence committed by unlawful assembly), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint), 504 (insult intended to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
The police said that Mansoor (35), a resident of Natekal on the outskirts of the city, works in the mall. He was among the five persons, who confronted three students belonging to different religions.
Initially the students were reluctant to file a complaint, but after the police met them and their parents on Wednesday, a complaint was filed by the victim.
The police said that they had collected photographs of the incident that were captured by onlookers. They also crosschecked these photographs with the CCTV footage. They are on the lookout for the other suspects.
