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MANGALURU: In a case of moral policing, a gang of eight to ten persons attacked a man from another community in Bantwal here on Sunday afternoon.

Police said the victim Suresh, a resident of Farangipete has been admitted to the government hospital in Puttur .

According to police, around 3 pm, the gang saw Suresh talking to a burkha-clad woman near the Farangipete bus stand and took offence to it. Police said Suresh, who was en route to Mangaluru from Bantwal, bumped into the woman he was acquainted with. Hence, he stopped by and struck a conversation with her.

After the chat, as turned on the car and moved ahead, but the gang waylaid him and launched an attack in addition to hurling abuses for talking to the woman.

Police from Bantwal Rural station have recorded the statement of Suresh and registered a case under IPC Sections 144, 323, 504 r/w 149.

Police said that they had definite information on the identity of the accused and they would be apprehended soon.

