Mangaluru: There was tense atmosphere for sometime on Saturday, after few miscreants allegedly belonging to pro-Hindu organizations stopped a college bus, which was taking as many as 38 students and teachers on an educational tour to Mysuru and Bengaluru.

In the bus, there were 38 students including 28 boys and 14 girls, accompanied by four lecturers. They belonged to Government pre-university college, Mudipu.

According to the sources, the activists stopped the bus, on learning that most of the female students were from Hindu community and many male students from Muslim community. Besides, there were no female students from Muslim community in the education tour.

“Why there are no female students belonging to Muslim community? Why the parents of Muslim students allow male students to go on tour and not female students? Why only Hindu female students are in bus?”, they questioned the teachers at the spot.

The lecturers told the activists that the students have come on their own with the permission of their parents. There was a heated exchange of words for a moment.

Subsequently, the students were asked to vacate the bus. Some miscreants pelted stone on the bus.

The police who arrived at the spot, brought the situation under control. One of the police was injured during the scuffle.