As many as seven persons including three womenfolk were injured following a bloody clash between two groups of people over installation of the idol of the Goddess Durga. Police have registered cases against both the parties.
The incident occurred in Bahubali locality of the city in Aerodrome locality, when one of the complainants identified as Vinay Singh (36), son of Vijay Singh Yadav was talking to lakhan Chandel, Shailu alias Hukum Chandel at a square when the accused identified as Dinesh and his accomplices reached there and started quarrelling with him and his colleagues over installation of the idol of the Goddess Durga. Dinesh and his friends later attacked him with lathis. When Vinay’s friends laakhan and Shailu intervened but they too were attacked by the accused with lathis, causing injuries to them.
Meanwhile, according to Dinesh who does job of stitching, said on way to his home yesterday from police station where he had gone yesterday to seek permission for installing the idol of the Goddess Durga, he was attacked by another accused Himmat Chandel, Annu Yadav, Shailu, laakhan, Rakesh Jaali and Chandu Yadav.
Dinesh in his complaint said that the accused besides injuring him, also beat up his wife and niece. The police after being informed about the incident reached incident site and sent injured to hospital for treatment. Following complaint of Dinesh, police also have registered a case against four persons from another group.