Hyderabad:The Kamatipura Police in Hyderabad on Monday, January 19, arrested 11 folks accused within the Puranapul communal violence that befell final week. Whereas the Hyderabad Police earlier took into custody the principle suspect, the 11 accused have been arrested for elevating provocative and communal slogans and inflicting injury to property.
The genesis of the occasion traces again to January 15, when one particular person entered the Puranapool Darwaza Mysamma temple and partially broken a flexi banner and a plaster of Paris (POP) idol inside it. In retaliation, others broken a chilla (Muslim shrine) close by. Primarily based on a grievance, the police registered a case.
When police resorted to a lathi cost, the mob pelted stones on the police, resulting in no less than 10 policemen and civilians getting injured within the violence.
Later, the Rajendranagar Police launched a press release clarifying that the offender didn’t enter the premises of Mysamma temple and information about its important idol being discovered broken was unfaithful. They stated that solely the flexi and the idol have been partially broken, and idols within the sanctum sanctorum (Garbha Gudi) have been secure.
In keeping with the police, based mostly on closed circuit tv (CCTV) footage and proof, the next folks have been recognized and arrested: Choukat Shanker Bolu, Choukat Abhishek, Kaliwale Kushal Singh, Andhumalla Varun, Andhumalla Arun, Choukat Raman, Kaliwala Bhumesh, Esliwala Ganesh, Jaggila Sandeep, Damdi Vishal Singh and Kali Manju. They have been all produced earlier than a neighborhood court docket and remanded to judicial custody.
It needs to be famous that the police didn’t disclose the id of the accused one who allegedly vandalised the temple.
