"Denying allegations that the Mangaluru City police were forced by right-wing activists to get women out of a party, the city police commissioner, S Murugan said that the organisers did not have the necessary liquor permission. According to a Hindustan Times report, Mangaluru police forced women dancing at a discothèque of a three-star hotel to leave on Saturday night, allegedly at the behest of the Bajrang Dal. The incident was first brought to attention on micro-blogging site Twitter by a journalist who alleged that the police chief was in the dark about his personnel’s help to a Hindu organisation in the vigilante move. Police sources said the crackdown was necessary because underage revellers were dancing but denied that only women were asked to leave. Based on the photos given to Hindustan Times by one of the organisers, only men were having a good time on the dance floor. The photos were taken between 8.26 pm and 9.07 pm, much after the police raid..."