Gujarat: 52 detained as mob assaults Rajkot police in search of public parade of homicide accused | Ahmedabad Information

The incident happened after the native police took the six accused, at present in custody, to the scene of the crime for a reconstruction of the brutal homicide of a person who had complained towards them in a land grabbing case.

Officers stated that whereas the FIR, filed a few week in the past, had named one particular person and three others, the police had, in its probe, discovered a complete of eight to be accused within the homicide. Six of the eight, together with the principle accused, have been arrested.

On Monday morning, the Vinchhiya police took the six accused to the crime scene for investigation. Subsequently, a crowd of round 1,500 individuals from the village, together with the victims’ family members and others, gathered in entrance of the police station and allegedly demanded that the accused be publicly paraded across the village by the police.

“Nonetheless, since parading the accused is an illegal act, we completely refused to conduct any such procession,” stated SP Singh, including that whereas the cops have been trying to barter with the group, the individuals had grow to be violent with a number of individuals throwing stones on the police workforce.

“Therefore, we took motion to disperse the group. We fired 10 tear fuel shells and carried out a gentle lathi cost. The state of affairs is now steady,” the officer stated.

By Monday night, the police had rounded up a complete of 52 individuals who can be booked for rioting, assault on public servants and different associated sections of the BNS, stated the senior officer.