Mangaluru: City Centre mall employee arrested for ‘moral policing’

September 10, 2015

Mangaluru, Sep 10: A day after a male and two female students belonging to different communities were questioned by so called moral police outside City Centre Mall in Mangaluru, the city police arrested a youth on Wednesday.

The accused has been identified as Mansoor (35), a resident of Natekal on the outskirts of the city. He is an employee at the City Centre Mall, where the alleged incident of moral policing took place.

Sources from Mangaluru North police said that Mansoor was among the five persons, who confronted Arjun, a Kerala based student and his two female classmates including a Muslim girl.

The accused has been arrested under Sections 143 (being member of unlawful assembly), 149 (offence committed by unlawful assembly), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint), 504 (insult intended to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

Since these offences are bailable, the police released Mansoor on bail after a rigorous interrogation.

Since the students were reluctant to file a police complaint after the incident, a team of policemen met them and their parents on Wednesday. Following this, the boy filed a complaint against five persons for harassing them in public.

The police said that they had collected photographs of the incident that were captured by onlookers. They also crosschecked these photographs with the CCTV footage. They are on the lookout for the other suspects.

Also Read: Moral police confront students at City Centre, cops act swiftly

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Air India Express brings back Mangaluru–Muscat direct flights from March 2026

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December 15,2025

Mangaluru, Dec 15: Air India Express has announced that it will resume direct flight services between Mangaluru and Muscat from March 2026, restoring an important international air link for passengers from the coastal region.

Airport authorities said the service will operate twice a week—on Sundays and Tuesdays—from March 1. The initial flights are scheduled on March 3, 8 and 10, followed by March 15 and 17, with the same operating pattern to continue thereafter. The flight duration is approximately three hours and 25 minutes.

The Mangaluru–Muscat route was earlier operated under the 2025 summer schedule, with services beginning on July 14. At that time, Air India Express had operated four flights a week before suspending the service.

Officials said the summer schedule will come into effect from March 29, after which changes in flight timings and departure schedules from Mangaluru are expected. Passengers have been advised to check the latest schedules while planning their travel.

The resumption of direct flights to Muscat is expected to significantly benefit expatriates, business travellers and others, further strengthening Mangaluru’s air connectivity with the Gulf region.

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