Hyderabad, May 12 (PTI) Nine people were arrested here for allegedly assaulting and injuring cattle transporters and police personnel after “unlawfully” stopping a vehicle carrying oxen, police said on Tuesday.
The incident happened on the intervening night between May 11 and 12 at the Kothapet crossroad. Some persons stopped the vehicle, which was carrying eight bulls with their owners, and the animals were going for a film shooting at Purani Haveli, a release from the Malkajgiri Police Commissionerate said.
The mob created a nuisance on suspicion that the animals were being taken for slaughter and wrongfully restrained the vehicle occupants, abused and assaulted them and attacked the police personnel who reached the spot after receiving the information, it said.
Subsequently, when the police personnel were shifting the vehicle along with bulls in order to drop it at a goshala for safe custody, some of the group members followed on two-wheelers and overtook the vehicle and stopped it on the road.
They then pelted stones at the vehicle and police party, causing severe injuries to police personnel, including an Inspector of Police. The vehicle was also damaged.
Police brought the situation under control and registered a case under relevant sections of the BNS against those involved in the incident.
Police later apprehended nine accused persons and produced them before a city court, which sent them for judicial custody.
Efforts are being made to identify and apprehend the rest of the accused, police added. PTI VVK VVK ADB
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