The city police have arrested five alleged assaulters and have also registered a case against a 16-year-old boy, who was part of the group.
According to a complaint with the Konaje police, the 23-year-old 2nd year M.A student and four of his classmates decided to visit Ullal as there were no classes in the University. Among the four classmates three were girls. A boy and a girl belonged to a different community.
These students boarded a bus from the University and got down at Thokkottu junction on the Mangaluru-Kasaragod stretch of the National Highway. From there they boarded another bus and reached Ullal. They visited Bhagawati Temple, the Ullal Dargah and came to the Ullal beach.
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As they were walking on the beach, the six-member group kept following them. Frightened, the students decided to return back to the University. The complainant said he saw the group following the bus they had boarded at Ullal. As the bus reached Thokkottu, the group trooped into the bus and dragged the complainant and his classmate, who belonged to another community, out of the vehicle. As they were questioning the two about moving with girls, the frightened classmate managed to run away and get into a bus towards the University. The girls too left the place.
The group beat the complainant and made him sit in an autorickshaw and took him to the University campus to trace his classmate who had run away. A police officer, who was patrolling in the University area, found the movement of seven persons in the autorickshaw suspicious and brought them to the Konaje police where the victim narrated the sequence of events.