Daijiworld Media Network - Beltangady (SP)
Beltangady, May 4: A local court has granted bail to the 15 Andhra policemen, against whom cases had been registered for behaving unlawfully and abetting the murder of a youth in Dharmasthala on Friday evening. As already reported, Bhikshamaya and Suvarnaraj, the two Andhra CRPF personnel who are charged with being directly responsible for the murder, have been remanded to 15 days judicial custody. It is learnt, the court took a lenient view and granted bail to 15 other policemen, as they were not directly involved with the murder and that they are required to attend to security duties relating the next phase of polling in Tamil Nadu.
In the meanwhile, the policemen have registered case against about 250 citizens of Dharmasthala, based on a complaint filed by the Andhra policemen. The youths who were playing cricket in Dharmasthala and with whom the guilty policemen were involved in a verbal altercation that ended with the policemen firing at them, were subjected to interrogation by the local policemen on Sunday May 3. Some of the youths are being treated in hospitals, while over 30 got themselves treated, claiming to have been injured.
The citizens of Dharmasthala have expressed anger at the fact that the policemen are taking a tough stand against them.
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