13 held, four cases registered for violence in DK district

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, July 10,2017: The police on Sunday arrested 13 persons and registered four cases in connection with stone pelting and unlawful assembly at B.C. Road during the funeral procession of RSS activist Sharath Madiwala on Saturday.

A special police team has also been formed to probe into the murder of Sharath.

Bantwal and B.C. Road witnessed an uneasy clam on Sunday. Shops and business establishments in the town remained closed. Two persons had been injured and several vehicles and an ATM counter damaged in the stone pelting by two groups during the procession. Sharath had died in a hospital in Mangaluru on Friday following assault by unidentified persons on July 4 at his laundry shop at B.C. Road.

Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police C.H. Sudheer Kumar Reddy said the joint special investigation team comprising officials from district police and Mangaluru Police Commissionerate will trace the assailants. He said the team will be headed by Additional Superintendent of Police N. Vishnuvardhan and will comprise of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, three police Inspectors and five police Sub-Inspectors.

Mr. Reddy said that the two injured have not filed complaints. Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel visited the residence of Sharath in Sajipa on Saturday night.

Meanwhile, referring to another attack on the outskirts of the city on Saturday night, Mangaluru Police Commissioner T.R. Suresh said a case of assault had been registered against three unidentified persons for assaulting 24-year-old Chiranjeevi at Kuttar in Ullal police station limits. The assailants followed Chiranjeevi, who was riding a motorcycle, and hit him on his head with a weapon. Chiranjeevi rode to a private hospital on his motorcycle and got himself admitted, the police said.

Courtesy: The Hindu