Kannada Activists ransack pub in Bangalore

Bangalore, May 6: Moral police were in action again, this time attacking a pub in a prominent five-star hotel in this city, before police intervened and arrested 27 activists of a little known organisation.

JB Nagar Police Inspector S Prakash said the group of activists belonging to Karnataka Yuva Vedike entered the pub past midnight last night, asked the customers to go out and ransacked the pub.

Police arrived on the spot and arrested the activists.

The arrested were produced before a city court and remanded to 20 days of judicial custody. They were sent to Parappana Agrahara Central Jail.

The activists opposed the pub culture, proved quite popular in the city, saying that "pub culture was not our culture and it affected the tradition of the people." Some customers argued with the activists even as tables, bottles and glass were broken and the sizable number customers, including many women, fled the troubled scene.

Police arrived and arrested all the trouble makers. The acvists were charged with criminal tresspassing, destroying of public properties and outraging the modesty of women as complained by the Hotel manager.

UNI