Chhattisgarh Police on Friday arrested 14 persons from Durg district for thrashing three men attired as holy men two days ago on suspicion of being child abductors.
Durg Superintendent of Police Abhishek Pallava named them Satyanarayan Chaldhari, Mulchand Vishad, Yashwant Sahu, Satyendra Mahto, Bhupesh Verma, Dharmendra Mahto, Rahul Chowdhary, Sadhu Yadav, Ravindra Sahu, Shubham Neware, Hritik Sahu, Jay Soni, Trilok Sonkar and Rahul Solanki, all from Charoda town.
They thrashed Rajveer Singh, Shyam Singh and Aman Singh, all from Alwar city in Rajasthan.
The accused were nabbed based on the video footage of the Wednesday incident.
A case under sections 294 (obscene acts), 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 147 (rioting) of the Indian Penal Code was lodged against more than 30 people.
The police have urged people not to react to take law into their own hands.