Mangaluru, October 7: A group of postgraduate students of Mangalore University on Tuesday October 6th, were reportedly chased by a gang of five and one among the students was beaten up in the university campus.
The five accused, identified as Suhan, Sunil, Prajwal, Abhishek and Chandra, all from Mogaveerpatna, have been arrested by Konaje police.
This incident took place when the students had been to Ullal for an outing.
It is gathered that Ramesh of Ballari, Shafiulla of Puttur along with three girls belonging to different religions, all studying in final year of post-graduation in the university, had been on a trip to Ullal. They visited Someshwar temple, Ullal Dargah and later went to Mogaveerapatna beach. When the friends were playing in the water and clicking selfies with each other, a few local youths observed them and came to know that students of another community were also part of the friends group. Then the youths followed the students.
It is gathered that, after they were being followed, the friends who grew frightened and got into a bus going to university. But, the youths from Mogaveerapatna took an auto rickshaw and followed the bus, and waylaid it near Thokkottu. Among the friends’ group, Sharifulla reportedly managed to escape. Later, the youths caught hold of Ramesh, forced him into an auto rickshaw and brought him to the university, and told him to show them Sharifulla’s class and hostel room, it is alleged. After bringing Ramesh to the university, the accused youths also allegedly thrashed him in the campus. Other students in the campus informed the Konaje police, who immediately rushed to the spot and arrested them.
A case is filed in Konaje police station.
