The Taliban-ization of India continues: Bajrang Dal activists attack girl for talking to a Muslim boy

Times of India - 7/2/09

Close on the heels of Sri Rama Sene men beating up girls in a Mangalore pub in the name of protecting Indian culture, here comes another shocker. 

Shruthi, the daughter of CPM MLA from Manjeshwar in Kerala C H Kunhambu, was attacked allegedly by a group of Bajrang Dal activists when she was returning to her hostel in Mangalore after a brief holiday at home on Friday evening. The brother of her classmate, Shabib, who was travelling in the same bus, was also thrashed by the suspected saffron activists, who took offence to the girl talking to a Muslim boy. Shruthi is a Class-XII student of St. Aloysius College in Mangalore.  

Shruthi said she and Shabib were dragged out of the bus by four men, aged between 25 and 30 years, who forced them to an autorickshaw before taking them to a house in Padil area of Mangalore. ‘‘They hit me and later they took turns to beat Shabib,’’ Shruthi told TOI over phone from Mangalore.