New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, while decrying incidents of “moral policing” involving the controversial Shri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, upheld the ban imposed by the Goa government on his entry to the state to maintain peace and tranquility.
Rejecting Muthalik’s petition against the ban, a Bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice Amkitav Roy told the counsel, “You cannot be doing moral policing and beating up girls and boys in the pub. What are you doing in Mangalore? What do you think? You can beat up women and others in the name of moral policing? For the time being you don’t enter Goa for six months and have your activities there. The people of Goa can take care of their interests”.
The Goa Government had in August last year banned him and the members of his organisation members’ entry into the state to maintain public peace and tranquility. Muthalik had approached the Panaji Bench of the Bombay High Court, which on June 2 this year upheld the state’s prohibitory orders, aggrieved by which he had moved the apex court.
The state had first imposed the ban order on his entry in August 2014 and had since then been periodically extending it every two months. Muthalik had challenged the High Court ban saying it was “orchestrated by an invisible hand operating from Goa or New Delhi”.
