Another incident of attack on Police in Muslim locality, 3 policemen injured

, Junagadh, 9 October 2014

In yet another incident in which the Gujarat Police was beaten up in Muslim locality by criminals or their supporters, eleven persons, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between police and villagers in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district today.

According to police, Sarpanch of the village Umar Abdul Baria provoked the crowd to launch attack on police and following his orders the villagers manhandled the policemen.

Three policemen, who went to serve a court summons to a person in a case of prohibition at Changodara village in Talala tehsil (Gir Somnath district), were injured when a group of people attacked them with sticks and hurled stones at them. Villagers also tore the court papers and tried to clinch the weapons of the policemen. The mob first thrashed police constable Iqbal Sheikh and then some villagers armed with bamboo sticks beat the other two constables Yasin Shah and Mahesh Mewada. Constable Iqbal sustained injuries on his face while Shah and Mewada fractured their legs. The policemen first ran away from the spot and called for extra police force following which additional force was sent there. But the villagers kept hurling the stones.According to police, the villagers might have felt that police had come to arrest a few of the villagers but those policemen had just gone to hand over a court summons.Eight villagers also sustained injuries and police reinforcement was sent to control the situation.

Attacks in Muslim localities on Police have occured in Vadodara, Ahmedabad(Shapur and Mirzapur areas), Dabhel(near Navsari) and now in Gir Somnath district.