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New Delhi: Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, who was given bail on Wednesday morning in a case of communal violence, was rearrested in the evening.

Muthalik’s organisation carried out the ghastly attack on women in a Mangalore pub. However, he was arrested on Tuesday for inciting communal violence in Davangere district in Karnataka and not for the Mangalore pub attack.

Sri Ram Sene was founded by Pramod Muthalik, a former RSS member and Bajrang Dal chief.

Speaking with CNN-IBN from Maharashtra over the weekend, Muthalik had defended his organisation and said the pub attack was not a big issue and that the media was blowing it out of proportion.

“It’s a small incident and we were only working against obscenity in public. You are not talking about the issue, which is obscenity and inappropriate behaviour,” he said while speaking on the Mangalore pub attack.

Muthalik – who was also the Karnataka chief of the Shiv Sene but parted ways with them over the Belgaum border issue – also said Shri Ram Sene was a non-profit organisation and its objective was to “serve the society and prevent bad behaviour”.

Muthalik fielded candidates against the BJP in the 2008 Assembly elections but lost.

Sri Ram Sene is not new to controversy. In 2007, its cadres attacked the house of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Selvi at the height of protests on the Cauvery issue.

It was also allegedly involved in the attack on Churches. His name figures in failed bomb blasts in Hubli last year.

Meanwhile, youth in Mumbai came together to protest against the Mangalore pub attack. A group of young girls and women came together in Thane to protest against the Sri Ram Sena for roughing up youngsters at a Mangalore pub. The women chanted slogans and demanded that such organisations be banned.