Bengaluru: The Varthur police arrested four persons on the charge of assaulting the policemen. The policemen who were trying to disperse a group of people, who were gambling inside a government school premises, were attacked and chased away.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Whitefield) Abdul Ahad said that Basappa Ganegera and Sharana Basappa, attached to Whitefield police station, were on patrol duty when they received a message about a group of people gambling inside the premises of a school. The duo reached the spot and tried to disperse the crowd, but the group attacked, abused and chased them away while passers-by remained mute spectators, the police said.
The duo managed to escape from the attackers and alert the police control room.
Additional police personnel were sent to the spot. They managed to arrest four persons, who led the attack, based on video footage sent by onlookers to the police.
The police have identified the arrested persons as Kumar, Sandeep, Murthy and Murali Mohan, all residents of Siddapura. They were booked under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code. They were produced before a magistrate who sent them to judicial custody.
