Sri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Muthalik’s plea to lift the ban on his entry in Goa has been rejected by the Supreme Court.
Bombay High Court’s Goa bench had rejected his plea in July, against which Muthalik had moved the Supreme Court, calling repeated rejection of his plea to be “orchestrated by an invisible hand operating from Goa or New Delhi,” according to The Indian Express.
What are you doing in Mangalore? Are you doing moral policing? Beating up girls at a pub in Mangalore? The High court is justified in stopping you. Let him not enter Goa for the time being - for six months. — Supreme Court Bench according to NDTV
The state government’s ban on Muthalik came to limelight in 2009 after Muthalik, along with his supporters, stormed into a night club in Mangalore and assaulted women.
Muthalik retorted saying the continued ban on his entry in Goa is violation of his fundamental rights of visiting the BJP-ruled state for religious purpose and exercise his Constitutional right.
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