Muthalik, 30 others acquitted in Mangaluru pub attack case
A neighborhood court on Monday absolved conservative Ram Sene President Pramod Muthalik and 30 others in the bar assault case here in January 2009 for need of evidence."Citing absence of proof from the indictment, the magistrate cleared me and 30 others of our association who were charged by then BJP government in the express," a much diminished Muthalik told correspondents. Around 40 Sene individuals supposedly assaulted the Amnesia bar in the port city, around 360 km from Bengaluru, in challenge western culture and western dress of the clients, including women."Cases were recorded against us under different areas of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) without confirmation and witnesses. The court has demonstrated us as legitimate and absolved every one of us," stated Muthalik. Condemning the claimed moral policing of the conservative activists, the then appointee commissionerfiled the case in a neighborhood court for supposedly mocking Indian convention, cu...