The Karnataka bandh called by right-wing outfit Sri Rama Sene to protest the blackening of its leader Pramod Mutalik's face allegedly by youth Congress activists evoked a mixed response on Saturday.

Sri Rama Sene leader Pramod Muthalik was taken into preventive custody in Mysore on Monday, police said.

The controversial Sri Ram Sene had stirred a hornet's nest in the state after its chief Pramod Mutalik warned to stop the pub culture in Goa.

Right wing group Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, whose outfit evoked national outrage by attacking girls and boys at a pub here, was today banned from entering Mangalore district for one year.

Sacked member of National Commission for Women Nirmala Venkatesh, whose position on the recent Mangalore pub attack had stirred up a big controversy, joined the BJP Thursday.

National Commission for Women member Nirmala Venkatesh, who had criticised the girls in the Mangalore pub attacked by right wing Sri Ram Sene activists, was on Friday removed from the panel by the Centre.

Irked by 'pink chaddi' campaign against him following his threat to disrupt Valentine's Day celebrations, Sri Ram Sene leader Pramod Muthalik has said he would soon sue the rights activists behind it.

An FIR was lodged here against Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury for allegedly promoting enmity between groups with her reported remarks on "Talibanisation" of Mangalore in the wake of the attack on women at a city pub.

A court in Mangalore has given the go-ahead for a case to be registered against the Women & Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhary for her remarks comparing the city with Taliban controlled areas in Afghanistan.

With Sri Ram Sene leaders in jail and thousands of police personnel on the streets to thwart disruption of Valentine's Day celebrations in Karnataka, activists of the rightwing Hindu group were on Saturday left rummaging through cartons of pink underwear that they were sent by a women's group.

Right wing Hindu group Sri Rama Sene founder Pramod Muthalik and over 100 others were detained by Karnataka police on Friday to prevent them from creating any trouble on the Valentine's Day Saturday, police said.

After triggering a war of words and a cheeky campaign by bloggers by his threat to marry off young men and women publicly displaying affection on Valentine's Day, Pramod Muthalik, founder of a rightwing Hindu group, now says his moral brigade won't be prowling on the streets on February 14.

More than two weeks after a group of self-styled moralists attacked young women in a pub in Mangalore, people in the town are still seething.

Terming the Sri Ram Sene as a "threat" to the country, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said that the Centre was watching its activities and expected the Karnataka government to take firm action against the outfit, accused of being involved in the Mangalore pub attack.

Two persons have been arrested in connection with the abduction of the daughter of a Kerala MLA, while four others have been picked up for questioning over the incident that has sparked nationwide outrage.

The differences within the National Commission of Women, over the Mangalore pub attack probe deepened on Friday with the Commission rejecting a report by one its members who had drawn the ire of a Union Minister.

The National Commission for Women on Friday decided not to accept the report filed by one of its members Nirmala Venkatesh on the Mangalore pub attacks, a week after she visited the site and blamed security lapse for the incident.

A slighted National Commission for Woman(NCW) member on Tuesday took pot shots at Union Minister Renuka Chowdhary for sending a second team to probe the Mangalore pub incident in which girls were attacked despite the Commission having investigated the matter.

"If people celebrate the day despite our warning, then we will definitely attack them," a senior Sri Ram Sene activist told a newspaper.

Right wing Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik along with 28 other accused in last week's attack on a pub in the city was on Saturday granted bail by a local court, but faces the prospect of arrest in another case.

Blaming security lapses in the Mangalore pub incident, National Commission for Women on Friday said it will recommend cancellation of licence of the restaurant as it was supposed to serve only food to guests.

A four-member Anti-Terrorist Squad team from Maharashtra on Friday interrogated Sri Ram Sene founder Pramod Muthalik in connection with the Malegaon blasts and over his suspected links with the prime accused of the case including Lt Col Srikant Purohit.

Pramod Muthalik will be questioned in connection with the Malegaon blast following speculation that the Sri Ram Sene head may have had links with the accused of the September 29 strike which claimed six lives, police on Thursday said.

More chief ministers on Thursday joined the debate on pub culture with Karnataka's B S Yeddyurappa opposing it while Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan sought to distance himself from the Mangalore incident.

The violent attack on a group of women in a Mangalore pub (Jan 24) by activists of the self-styled Sri Ram Sene who could not countenance such innocent revelry is to be condemned in the most unambiguous terms.