Mangaluru, Mar 22: T R Suresh, Commissioner of Mangaluru City Police, has rubbished the rumours of action against a policeman for allegedly thrashing unruly mob during Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s recent Mangaluru visit, as false and baseless.
Messages have been doing rounds on WhatsApp groups and other social media platforms that a police constable was suspended for thrashing members of the public who were behaving in an unruly manner on the national highway near Kallapu on the outskirts of the city.
Denying the social media reports, Suresh maintained that the police constable might have done it due to security concerns, and that he has suspended no one on this count.
Sources claimed that the incident took place during Rahul’s visit to Ullal Dargah, late on Tuesday evening. A huge group of youth had gathered on both sides of the highway in Kallapu.
It is alleged that their presence beside the road on both sides caused the road to be blocked, and that the police on duty took exception to it, due to security reasons. As the youth did not budge, the police had to use force to move them back, he said.
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