JOIN USSuperintendent of Police D Devaraj said on Sunday that sections of the media had been disseminating wrong information regarding the incident of attack on innocents, mistaking them to be child-lifters, at Murki village in Kamalapur taluk.
He said the victim - Mohammed Azam - had not died due to the stone-throwing by the mob when he was in the car. The SP said prohibitory orders had not been clamped in the village either. The situation was brought under control on Saturday itself, he said.
Two police inspectors had been assigned the task of probing the incident of attack on the innocents, Devaraj said. Inspectors Dileep Sagar and Amaresh will investigate the incident and submit a report, the SP said. One case each has been filed in the Hokrana and Kamalanagar police stations.
“The car in which the victims were travelling collided with a bike and this made the village residents more angry. Had the police not reached the spot of accident soon, the situation would have gone out of hand,” Devaraj said.
Video clippings show the residents assaulting Azam. But the latter suffered injuries in the accident too. The exact cause of the death would be ascertained after getting the post mortem report, Devaraj said.
Police said 28 people had been remanded in judicial custody in connection with the incident. Of them, two are women and two are minors.