Bajrang Dal activists beat up Muslim boy for going shopping with Hindu girl

Mangaluru: A 21-year-old Muslim man, Arshad, was allegedly assaulted by 10 Bajrang Dal activists when he went shopping to Forum Fiza mall in Mangaluru with a Hindu female friend, last Sunday.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, the two spent an hour in the mall and were in for a shock when they saw a gang of 10 youth waiting to confront them on their exit.

On knowing the girl's name, they asked her to head home and when she retaliated, they threatened her, saying if she did not obey she would have to face dire consequences.

The group then bundled Arshad into a van and took him to an isolated place outside the city where he was threatened and warned to stay away from Hindu girls.

The young woman lodged a compliant with the police and also gave a description of few members of the gang, basis which police arrested Chetan (22) from Kujathbail, Rakshit (23) from Sringeri, Sushanth Shetty (23) from Karkala, Sharat Kumar (20) and Ashwin Raj (21) from Mangaluru on Monday.

Police is on the lookout for other five accused who are absconding and are believed to be hiding in Kerala.

Arshad who works in a private firm in Dubai, befriended the girl on Facebook. He recently returned to Manguluru and met the girl, who hails from Maharashtra and is studying at a private college in Manipal.

The police found out that four of the 10 accused worked in the mall as outsourced staff. When one of them noticed the duo shopping, he alerted his friends and the gang decided to teach the youth a lesson.