Hyderabad: A sub inspector (SI) from the Vanasthalipuram police station suffered grave injuries to his head after being stone-pelted by members of the right-wing brigade.
The SI Madhava Reddy’s skull is said to have been brutalised. After the assault, the cop was rushed into neuro-surgery. The DCP of LB Nagar, Sunpreet Singh informed Siasat.com that Reddy is obtaining treatment at Kamineni hospital currently.
Reddy’s condition was born out of a protest which in turn was caused by an altercation between right-wing vigilantes and cattle transporters. As per a police press note, right-wing vigilantes stopped a vehicle transporting cattle and were in turn beaten up. They allegedly rushed into a near-by Hanuman temple to seek protection.
The incident worsened after both parties started pelting stones at each other.
After this incident, huge numbers of Hindu activists gathered at Hanuman Temple, Karmanghat under Saroornagar PS limits to protest the entry of other religion people into Hanuman Temple, they staged dharna and given slogans against the religion by outraging their believes and sentiments and they obstructed the free flow of traffic on the main road.
In this incident, when the police tried to pacify the unruly mob, they started chanting slogans and pelting stones on the police which is also when the Vanasthalipuram SI was attacked.
