Mangaluru, Mar 17: In a heartrending tragedy, a middle aged woman died of heart attack after hearing the news that her son was targeted by the vigilante attackers belonging to Sangh Privar at Ullal beach on the outskirts of the city on Monday.
The deceased has been identified as Zohra (45) a resident of Kudroli in Mangaluru. She suffered heart attack after Ullal police contacted her over phone and informed her that her son Obaidullah was attacked by “moral police” for visiting Ullal beach along with his classmates belonging to different communities. Zohra’s husband lives in Sharjah.
A group of PUC students from a private institution in the city had visited Ullal beach on Monday evening. 19-year-old Obaidullah was one among them.
When a few local miscreants, said to be Bajrang Dal activists, noticed Obaidullah and a girl belonging to Hindu community talking to each other, they surrounded the students and brutally assaulted the Muslim boy. Obaidullah has sustained severe injuries in the attack.
Later the miscreants handed over Obaidullah and the Hindu girl hailing from Moodushedde near Vamanjoor, to the jurisdictional Ullal police. However, Ullal police registered a complaint against the assailants based on a complaint lodged by Obaidullah.
When Sangh Parivar activists threatened to storm Ullal police, the police shifted the duo to another police station in Mangaluru and informed their parents.
Obaidullah’s mother was shell-shocked when she received a call from the police. She immediately hired an auto-rickshaw to meet her son in the police station. However, she suffered a massive heart attack on her way to the police station. The auto-rickshaw driver rushed her to a private hospital, where she breathed her last.
The incident occurred two days after hundreds Sangh Parivar activists prevented students of Mudipu First Grade College in Mangaluru taluk from undertaking an educational trip, claiming that male students from Muslim community formed the “majority” in the group.
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