Mangalore: Trivial matter snowballs into fight - Man assaulted by youths
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (BG)
Mangalore, May 15: A resident of Katipalla Shamshuddin Circle was allegedly assaulted by local youths here on Wednesday May 15 early morning at around 5 am.
Abdul Salam, a newspaper agent by profession, was on his duty distributing papers early morning from 4 am. He finished his first round of distribution and started back home on his second round.
On the way back, he passed by a new mosque near Shamshuddin Circle, where preparations were going on for its inauguration scheduled for Friday May 17. The local youths, numbering around 15, were busy decorating the area with green buntings to give it a festive look. As Abdul approached the circle, a piece of bunting lying on the road got stuck to his bike tyres, but he could not remove it manually as his bike was loaded with paper bundles.
He then asked the youths to move the buntings safely to the side, so that people passing by that road were not harmed. However, Abdul's words offended the youths, who reportedly abused him verbally. But Abdul did not pay them any attention and proceeded towards his home.
The matter did not end there. As per the complaint, some of the youths followed Abdul to his house, and one of them barged in with a soda bottle in hand and warned him. Abdul was alone in his house at the time of the incident, as his wife and children had been to their native.
An argument arose between the accused and Abdul, and a youth identified as Zabiulla, aged around 20, allegedly assaulted him with a soda bottle. The youths then together assaulted him further and three of them, of whom two were identified as Nooman and Irshad, hit Abdul on the head with a teapoy glass. The accused also ransacked the house, it is learnt.
As the heavily bleeding Abdul fell uncounsious, the accused escaped from the spot. The neighbours, on hearing the noise, came rushing and took Abdul to Padmavati hospital immediatel.
A case has been registered in the Suratkal police station in this regard and investigation is on.