Section 144 imposed in Suratkal for one week

Mangalore Today News Network

Suratkal, Feb 12: Girish R, the Panambur Deputy Superintendent of Police, has informed that Section 144 has already been imposed in Suratkal and surrounding areas following a number of violent incidents that have been taking place there recently. 

The DySP said that the commercial establishments in Suratkal will be closed by 8 p.m. Additional police personnel have been deployed to the area to maintain law and order. Those travelling through the area at night are required to have their identity cards with them. Vehicle owners are required to produce their original documents as and when demanded by the police. 

K V Belliappa, the in-charge of the Suratkal police station, said that the prohibitory orders will be imposed for around a week. He also informed media persons that the police are investigating the case in which the skull of a cow was tossed into the courtyard of a Daivasthana recently as well as the case in which people at Krishnapur and Ganeshpura were assaulted by masked men. 

On Thursday, a group of 50 people including some Muslim women from Iddya, protested in front of the police station. The protestors alleged that the police had arrested innocent people with regard to these incidents. 

DySP Girish said that the man arrested on grounds of desecrating a mosque in Angaragundi has already been produced in court. Police are now hunting for two others who are absconding. 

Meanwhile, the police are continuing to protect places of worship in Suratkal.