Pramod Muthalik moves Supreme Court over Goa ban

The 52-year-old chief of Sri Ram Sene came into limelight after he led a group of men to attack women visiting a Mangalore pub in 2009.

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In his petition filed through advocate Vishnu Jain, he sought the stay of the July 2 order of the Bombay High Court’s Goa bench, and described the ban orders as “oppressive, repressive, unjust, unfair, arbitrary and clearly an abuse of process of law for extraneous and political reasons”.

Muthalik argued when leaders like All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi and his brother Akbaruddin Owaisi or Binayak Sen have not been banned from Goa, the reasons given by districts police chiefs to prohibit his entry were certainly prompted by “corrupt motives to appease political masters and have submitted reports to suit the political ambitions of a person operating from Goa and/or New Delhi”.