Chhattisgarh Police on Sunday arrested five persons for rioting and killing an assistant sub-inspector of police who collapsed in Mahasamund district where he went to disengage two brawling groups.
Those arrested were Shekhar Namdeo and his sons Sunny and Ojasvi along with two brothers Anil and Indraraj Suryavanshi, all from Mahasamund town, Mahasamund Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Megha Tembhurkar said.
The deceased officer, Vikas Sharma, was posted with the district’s Cyber Cell, she said.
Based on a complaint by a witness Durgesh Kannauje, the police lodged an FIR under sections 147, 149 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
The incident occurred near Sharma’s house in Clubpara area near the PWD office on Saturday night when Sunny Namdeo and Anil Suryavanshi were locked in a verbal row.
Later, three others also joined Namdeo and Suryavanshi. All of them started beating Sharma when he tried to pacify the warring members, the officer said.
Sharma was rushed to a private hospital where he was declared dead.
The body was later sent for autopsy and the exact cause behind the death will be known when the report comes in, Tembhurkar added.