Cockfight held at school in Shibaroor

September 8, 2011

Mangalore, September 8: In a shocking incident, a cockfight was held at the Higher Primary School at Delanthabettu in Shibaroor in Mangalore taluk.

It is said that the schoolchildren were left off early on last Wednesday to hold the cockfight.

According to sources, the cruel gambling began around 3 p.m. but by 4.30 p.m. everybody left the school premises before the arrival of the police, raising doubts that they had been tipped off.

Usually a cockfight, which has been banned under the Karnataka Police Act, 1936, begins around 3 p.m. and continues till 8 p.m.

The police said that they rushed to the school soon after receiving information.

Commissioner of Police Seemant Kumar Singh said that the police would conduct an inquiry into the incident.

Organising cockfight for gambling was an offense. But the police would give permission if cockfights were organised as part of religious or cultural events, he said.

According to a trustee of Shri Kodamanithaya Daivasthana, about eight cents of land of the school belonged to the temple and the local people had informed him that they were holding a cockfight. He had told them to go ahead with it, he said.

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