Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, Jan 2: The police here allegedly lathi-charged youths at Tannirbhavi beach to clear the traffic block. A class 6 student and PU students also reportedly received blows during the atrocity from the police. Locals took the cops to task.

According to locals, as it was weekend and new year there was heavy rush of visitors on Sunday to Tannirbhavi beach. Hence, the road leading to the beach was blocked right from Saturday. However, the police waylaid the youths who were returning after playing cricket on Sunday evening and hit them with lathis accusing them to be the reason for the traffic jam.

A class 6 student was injured seriously and admitted to the hospital. Local public gheraoed the police and took three cops on spot to task. A complaint is raised with city police commissioner in this regard through MLA Vedavyas Kamath. The video of public expressing rage against the three cops has gone viral on social media.