Mangaluru: A risk issued to burqa-clad girls issued by Muslim Defence Pressure (MDF), a WhatsApp group, having gone viral on social media, is retaining police in Mangaluru on its toes. The message, a warning to girls draped in burqa towards participating in ‘indecent behaviour’ was issued by the MDF, after its members allegedly caught just a few women ‘red-handed’ at a parking zone of the department stores. The women, and their mother and father, have been reportedly let off by the MDF with only a warning. Nevertheless, the message, which went viral on Thursday, warned that girls caught in an analogous scenario would henceforth be overwhelmed up.
Mangaluru metropolis police at the moment are intently monitoring social media accounts to forestall any untoward incidents from unfolding within the metropolis. The message, in Kannada, warns mother and father to maintain an in depth watch on their daughters’ actions. “See that your daughter reaches school on time, and returns residence on time,” the message learn. MDF members allegedly directed women to not take away their burqa in public locations to click on selfies.
Mangaluru metropolis deputy commissioner of police (regulation and order) Hariram Shankar mentioned that the social media cell was relaying all the important thing info to the state intelligence group. “Few months in the past, MDF began sending messages aimed toward serving to protect the morality of Muslim girls, whom they warned of motion ought to they fail to put on a burqa when in public. We now have intently been monitoring the exercise of this group on social media,” Shankar mentioned.
Nevertheless, following an extended checklist of circumstances being filed in reference to provocative social media posts, there was a marked decline in teams, particularly these based mostly in Mangaluru disseminating related messages, he mentioned. “In some circumstances, the directors of the teams had themselves known as on different members to train restraint of their messages, and to be cautious of posting messages that denigrated non secular beliefs,” DCP Shankar mentioned.