Eight activists of the Hindu Jagarana Vedike were arrested for allegedly beating over a dozen youths including five girls at a weekend party on outskirts of this Karnataka city, police said. “We have arrested eight for moral policing and assaulting five girls and eight boys who were celebrating a birthday party at a resort (Morning Mist),” a police official said.

Hooligan are back: This is the second time that such an attack on women has taken place in the city. In January 2009, a group of Sri Ram Sene activists had thrashed women and men at a pub. Representation Pic