The Chief Justice asked the question while hearing PILs on other issues
While referring to the incident of attack on youngsters, including girls, at a ‘homestay’ during a birthday party in Mangalore on Saturday, the Karnataka High Court on Monday asked why no public interest litigation (PIL) petition had been filed in this regard.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice Aravind Kumar posed this question to the advocates for the petitioners and respondents during the hearing on the PIL petition filed by Eric Ozario and others from Mangalore seeking a direction to consider many scripts for Konkani language.
The Chief Justice observed that the Mangalore incident had more public interest than the one raised in the petition and asked why the petitioners have not filed PIL regarding the attack as they are from that place.
He posed the same question to a petitioner, who sought to move a PIL petition on legislators’ proposed foreign tour.
Keywords: Mangalore homestay attack, morning mist homestay, Mangalore moral policing, Hindu Jagarane Vedike
Barbarians rule the streets and the state legislature with the same mindset, it appears. One set goes on a rampage in the street while the CM condones MLAs who watch porn in the assembly.
17 crores to be spent on praying while 700 crores made raping the western ghats in the name of development and mining - while at the same breath protesting against UN declaring Western Ghats as a world heritage site.
This government in Karnataka feeds on corruption while praying for rain is understandable but certainly what is not acceptable is when it preys on unsuspecting public or allow attacks on the public go unpunished and unchallenged.
Mr. Saravanabavan,
You imply that the activities that went on the apartment - which you seem to imply
were "immoral" - brought upon it the wrath of the "moral police". Well, what
happens in the confines of a private apartment, as long as it does not violate
criminal laws or is seditious or illegal has nothing to do with third parties or self
appointed vigilantes. And as this article points out, the "moral police" themselves
behaved immorally with the girls in the apartment and physically assaulted them.
I do hope you realise that India is not Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia where "moral
police" unleash their fury on women with impunity. But sadly, groups such as the
Vedike and their foolish supporters appear to want India to become another Saudi
Arabia...
After every incident every organisation says they condemn the attack
and thier organisation is not behind it,time has now come for every
citizen of india to question these organisations in manglore that who
gave them the moral police authority ? What is the police doing when
these kind of radicals are roaming with free arms in our society
,india is a socilaistic democratic repulic secular country in which
every citizen can do according to his conscience as long as it is not
affecting the unity and integrity of our country.these organisations
should be banned who take law in thier own hands .these radicals
assault girls as said by one of the victim that they touched her in
appropriate places robbed her valuebles ,is this what u do in the name
of a culture and religion,karnataka has highest number of molestation
cases in india right now against women . can any one gaurantee that
this type of incident will never take place again in manglore ?
absolutely NO
I never thought the judges of these High Court were so naive to raise such a poser to other PIL petitioners...They must be living in entirely different world. No one in their sense would dare to file a PIL against local and state government supported 'terrorists' and live the rest of their short-life in utter fear....Come on judges, you can think and act better... what common people are asking you is why haven't you taken 'suo motu' action???!!!Hope the judge who asked the question reads this comment (if published by this newspaper)
Why not this Vedike get into the houses and resorts frequented by the
Legislators and also the top Bureacrats and find out what goes on there
and do the same thing they did in Padil. Gutless fellows.
Eventhough I am not happy with he way the issue was handled by the poeple[portrayed as attackers],let me ask, what was going on in that building ?I am afraid to see a bunch of girls and boys spend a day at a bulding partying and enjoying?It is unimaginable and i am certainly against of such uncultural trends.it is completely against of our culture and I am worried that it may cause a trend among young poeple lest it is dealt properly.It high time the government should strictly ban such homestay parties or things of such kind.Undoubtedly it will boost up unhealthy practices.I feel the young poeple at the homestay should be arrested first then the poeple who took up law in their hands too can be arrestd.I am happy that no women welfare organisations come to aid those women involved in the incident.
Horse trading, blackmailing for power, spending crores of public money on personal
Helicopter rides to Temples conforms to Hindutva. But, a bunch of majors gathering
at a place to spend time and celebrate a birthday does not?
This has nothing to do with Culture or Hinduism. Its gooda-gardi; a bunch of rogues
out to calm their lustful anger to be directed against those poor women.
When I saw the guy slapping that girl, my blood boiled. Shame on them.
It is a national shame that attracitie of this nature are allowed to take place in India's civilized society. Our pride as Indians lie in protecting the honor of our brothers and sisters. In the name of religious ideologies few hooligans roam free for their personal financial gains. These are a demoralized lot who have the backing of few politicians who themselves lack character and upbringing should be given stern punishment. Our society cannot function with pride and dignity if the government fails in its duty to protect the rights of people. Defunct government and its officials should be held equally responsible and accountable. Justice cannot prevail in any society where the law and order can disintegrate to this miserable level.
There are several immoral activities going on Mangalore and Kundapur areas. Most important among them is illeagal alcohol making and selling it. This happens very right under the nose of so called moral police why arent they acting against it? Why do they get upset when girls are having fun? If they want to clean up the society first let them fight against illegal alcohol in Kundapur Udupi and Mangalore area! And I feel alcohol is the root cause of all trouble in life.
@ Russel Not only BJP even Congress... all politician. Be human, dont get politican here. The guy who arrange birth party was Mr Kamath..
To respond to the comment of Russel on this issue, while no one can agree with the method used by these marauding goons, it seems these goons at least have more convinction about their 'wishes' than Mr Russel has about his , who wants these goons to go behind something he 'wishes' them to do. If he thinks this is the method to be employed against people he despises, it is entirely on him to muster his courage and go behind his targets and face the consequences.
I don't understand why we have these double standards and call it
against Hindu culture. If having a party is against Hindu culture then
beating and molesting people is a sin too. And comparing such people to
animals is wrong. Animals don't molest other animals!
Why doesnt the police act against these people who openly speak about plan to attack pubs, spas, homestays etc.?
If the authorities leave these Morale Policing Gangs not penalised severely on some pretext
or the other the same things will repeat every now and then for sure. There are
organizations behind these rouges but now they deny their involvement. Some day they may
intrude private homes in Mangalore.
Nobody has the right to take law into their hands. I strongly condemn
these attacks. Its pathetic that Jagadish Karanth is defending these
attacks in the name of Hindutva. Mr Karanth should realize that what he
is doing is not very different from what Taliban is doing in
Afghanistan.
The so called “cultural police” had shown their real culture by assaulting helpless women! Is this the Hindutva culture? These people, whoever responsible for this inhuman act, must be brought to book.
This seems to be not a democratic country.My question to the police and
judges of courts is.."How can they(some privte groups) be allowed to
take law into their hands"
they have no values no feelings they just wanted to molest and manhandle women for fun.would they have done same thing to their own mothers and sisters.they need to be punished severly
It is regrettabe to see such incidents happening again and again in our country..who are these self proclaimed torch bearers of indian culture...who gave them the right to indulge in violence against women..which is definitely not intrinsic to any civilized society or culture..whatever the justification may be .they have proved themselves to be in the same league as petty criminals and eve teasers..
So far the reader does not have a clue of what was going on in the appartment when this incidence took place. Was it a get-together or a party or ?
The report is only describing the actions of "moral police", yet not highlighting the cause.
If these groups suspect that there is prostitution going on in the guise of partying, they should just tip off the police. In any case, they should not take law into their own hands.
Finally the question needs to be asked if partying of the alleged kind is against the law, or does it have a place in society ? It needs to be debated.
This kind of "immoral" behaviour by so-called moral police will only encourage law-abiding citizens to keep weapons on their person & counter such aggression with aggression. Nobody, not even policemen have the right to use force & violence against such activities. And everyone has the right to self-defence.
On one side people want NO COMMUNISM, on the other they do not want masti parties with women!What do they want then?
About the incident of Mangalore moral policing -2 (This time, they appeared with another banner Hindu Jagaran Vedike than that of Sreeram Sene,the rent-a- riot fame!)
One learned gentleman,who happens to be a facebook friend asked in response to a news link posted by me yesterday :
##In the name of freedom, should we allow unrestricted consumption of drugs?##
If your real worry is 'unrestricted use of drugs' you could ask the authorities to take appropriate action; but here,that is certainly not the issue; it is an idiotic effort to cover up. You know no one has the right to take the law in hands..Yet, these educated' snobs try to cover up the shame asking stupid posers like this. Challenge the audacity of cultural illiterates who have no sense of shame in supporting criminals who do moral policing on men and women and who perpetuate atrocities on women!
This is ridiculous ! even if there was a rave party or a couple of
teenagers having a good time, its none of any ones business. The moral
policing should be done on corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. If a
person wants to live in this country he has to have political
connections or police connections (bribe friendly) or thug connections.
This is the only way. Lie, Cheat , Steal , Bribe and you will prosper in
this country !
If there were immoral activities going on, then that is the mistake of those people involved and police should take the action. who are these people to take action ?
why go attack on these poor guys and girls who party in the weekend ( so to say).. why not take action on the cruel politicians who take away millions of rupees with them.. I think if they do take action on some of these so called politicians, i am sure many people will like them !! :).
attacking just some few in the name of Hinduism is a stupidity !
I wish these guys would do the same disciplining acts on the BJP MLAs,and the
ministers who seem to be interested more in capturing power, indulging in mass
corruption, seeing porn in the Assembly, and mine Karnataka to the last stone .
This is common in India and this limelight will be there for a few days and then Annaji would be the hot topic to discuss. Nothing serious, Molesting women, raping them, communal riots, caste untouchability, etc. We have grown up with these and nothing new for India. No stirct laws and orders, no proper governing bodies, failed judicial system have brought in a feel of hatred. Now what if the victim files a case, the judges would give the verdict after 10 years, meanwhile the victim would be abroad and the accused a political party member or president and the case would be an advantage for him to gain political mileage. What i say is a pragmatic fact. Indian Culture is what we grew up and the so called positive Indian culture i have only read on text books but in real life i have seen all these.
If the govt has any cojones, they will declare the Vedike as a terrorist
organizations and arrest anybody professing allegience to it. These
filthy taliban deserve no less.
The entire rabid lot who are mostly gutless cowards will vanish fairly
quickly. They are not a gutsy kind at all -- just a bunch of cowardly
dogs who can only act in a crowd.
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