Women’s commission to probe Mangalore pub assault

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday formed a panel to probe the charges of assault levelled by an Air India air hostess against two pilots who were allegedly involved in a mid-air scuffle with her during a flight. The air hostess had filed a formal complaint with the women's panel.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Commission for Women (NCW) Monday said it was sending a team to probe the awful and unbelievable reports that debt-ridden farmers in Uttar Pradesh's drought-hit Bundelkhand region were selling off their women to survive. It is awful and unbelievable that it still happens in the country and that too in Uttar Pradesh where the chief minister is a woman, NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas told IANS.

July 18th, 2009 MANGALORE - Indian Coast Guard rescued 18 crew members of a China bound ship off Mangalore on Friday. The cargo ship, 'Asian Forest', carrying 13,600 tons of iron ore, lay tilted 20 degrees about 15 nautical miles in the Arabian Sea soon after it had left Mangalore port.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Mangalore court on Monday banned Sri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Muthalik from entering 'Dakshin Kannada District' for one year. Mangalore is the headquarter of Dakshin Kannada District.

February 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury Friday sacked National Commission for Women (NCW) member Nirmala Vankatesh who probed the pub attack on women in Mangalore, saying her conduct was detrimental to public interest. In a notification issued by the ministry, Chowdhury said Vankatesh was sent to Mangalore to probe the assault on women in a pub by the Hindu outfit Sri Rama Sene, but she went public and 'acted in a way which was detrimental to public interest'.

February 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Condemning the attack on a Kerala legislator's daughter in Mangalore, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday said the central government should ensure that women and minorities are protected in Karnataka. 'The CPI-M strongly condemns the violence against the school going daughter of a Kerala legislator in Mangalore.

February 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Commission for Women (NCW) Friday rejected its member Nirmala Venkatesh's report that blamed the Jan 24 attack on women in a Mangalore pub on the security of the establishment. NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said the report lacked on three counts - no social activists or local advocates were included in the committee, none of the persons attacked were contacted or interviewed, it focussed on the licence issued to the bar owners that was not part of the probe - and was thus not acceptable.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ministry of women and child development, headed by Renuka Chowdhury, Thursday evening issued a show-cause notice to National Commission for Women (NCW) member Nirmala Venkatesh, who probed the pub attack on women in Mangalore, for her 'unbecoming' action and 'dereliction of duty'. 'Your acts are unbecoming of a member of the National Commission for Women.

February 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Mangalore pub assault has triggered a war of words within the National Commission for Women, as its chairperson Tuesday 'nullified' a probe by a commission member into the attack on some young women. However, Nirmala Venkatesh, who conducted the probe, said her findings were impartial.

January 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Renuka Chowdhury has sent a two-member team to conduct an independent probe into the attack last month on women in a Manglore pub, an official said here Sunday. Around 40 members of Sri Rama Sene (army of god Rama) barged into a Mangalore pub 'Amnesia' Jan 24 and bashed up several young men and women in the name of moral policing.

January 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Sri Rama Sene president Pramod Muthalik and 27 Sene activists arrested for last week's attack on women in a Mangalore pub were released on bail Saturday. A Mangalore court granted them bail with conditions including one that says they should report to the Mangalore North police station once a fortnight.

January 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Sri Rama Sene president Pramod Muthalik and 27 Sene activists arrested for last week's attack on women in a Mangalore pub were Saturday released on bail. A Mangalore court granted them bail with conditions including one that says they should report to the Mangalore North police station once a fortnight.

January 27th, 2009 BANGALORE - Sri Rama Sene founder-president Pramod Mutalik was taken into detention by the police for Saturday's attack by members of his outfit on women in a pub in Mangalore, officials said. Mutalik will be brought Thursday before a court in Mangalore which had issued a 'body warrant' against him.

January 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - Pramod Mutalik, founder-president of Sri Rama Sene, whose activists assaulted women in a Mangalore pub Saturday, was arrested Tuesday. The arrest, however, was for an old case of inciting communal disharmony.

January 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Women's rights activists Sunday condemned the attack on girls in a pub in Karnataka's coastal city of Mangalore by a self-styled moral brigade called Sri Rama Sene. Several women's rights organisations expressed their anger at the assault, saying it was violation of freedom.