Five arrested for alleged moral policing near Mangaluru
The Hindu
They stopped three students at a toll plaza to ask their names and religion
The Surathkal police have arrested five persons for confronting and assaulting three students near the NITK toll plaza on NH 66 in an alleged act of moral policing. Mangaluru Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar confirmed the arrest of five persons.
In his complaint to the Surathkal police on September 26, one of the students said he was in a vehicle along with another male and a female. They are students of a medical college in Deralakatte. They were returning after a trip to Manipal and Malpe in neighbouring Udupi district.

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