Mangaluru: Moral policing is back in Mangaluru and this time at Carstreet. A group tried to assault two lecturers who had accompanied a female student of another community to purchase books and other materials from a shop at Carstreet on Monday evening. The incident took place when the three were returning after the purchases.

The girl was a final semester engineering student while the lecturers were her guide for project work. The miscreants who were three in number had followed them in a bike. When they threatened and tried to assault the lecturers, the latter were eventually rescued by locals. The police who rushed to the spot ensured that the situation did not go out of control.

City Police Commissioner T R Suresh has said that the student as well as the two lecturers have been asked to file a complaint at Mangaluru North Police Station.