Juhapura stone pelting: 24 including main accused Mahebub Thuntho arrested

Ahmedabad: Police have arrested Mahebub Thuntho, the main accused of last evening’s stone pelting incident in Juhapura, in which a police vehicle was damaged and three police men were injured.

The incident of attack on police took place at 6.45 pm near Al Madina mosque in Juhapura on public road opposite Apna Nagar. According to police complaint, three police men suffered injuries on leg and head and front glass of Bolero jeep vehicle of police was damaged.

Police had in its FIR named 23 persons and booked them under IPC 143, 147, 148, 332, 337, 186, 427, 188, damage to public property act section 3, GP act section 135(1). While they were arrested yesterday, the main accused Mahebub Thuntho was arrested today. Two more accused are still at large.

Around 14 police men including ASI, constables, head constables and drivers were in patrolling last evening in Juhapura and they were asking the locals to stay in home via loud speaker attached to police vehicle. Around 40-50 persons gathered and disobey police instruction to go inside. Accused Mahebum alias Thuntho shouted loudly and asked others to resist the police for not allowing locals to gather outside. This sparked off stone pelting in which ASI Sikandar Jummabhai suffered head injury while police constable Ravirajsinh Natubha suffered injury on leg and Lok Rakshak Dal jawan Yuvrajsinh suffered injury on left hand palm. A police vehicle of Vejalpur police station was also attacked with stone and its front glass was damaged.

Police arrested 23 persons from the spot while Mahebub Thuntho, Raju alias Meblo Kaiyum Pathan and his father Kaiyum Pathan and others escaped the place through narrow streets.

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