Sri Rama chief banned from entering Mangalore

"Sri rama Sene Cheif Pramod Muthalik"

17-03-09 Right wing group Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, whose outfit evoked national outrage by attacking girls and boys at a pub, was banned from entering Mangalore district for one year.

The ban, ordered by the District Administrator and Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj following Muthalik owning up responsibility for the attack in January this year, official sources said. The Sri Rame Sene chief was earlier banned from entering the district for 15 days during 2003, the sources said.

In act of 'moral policing' against pub culture, Sri Rama Sene activists had attacked women and others at the pub on January 24, raising the hackles of women's bodies with some organising 'pink chaddi' (underwear) campaign, sending thousands of undergarments to Muthalik.

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