The Mangaluru North Police arrested three persons allegedly involved in the assault of a 30-year-old man near the City Centre Mall here on evening of June 26.
The police gave the names of the accused as Abubakkar Siddiqi (19) of Bantwal, Mohammed Basheer (22) of Adyar Kannur and Irfan M.H. (29) of Jeppu.
These three were among those who were accused of assaulting the 30-year-old man outside the mall. He was assaulted for reportedly “misbehaving” with a girl from a different community near the billing counter of a hyper market in the mall.
The police have registered a case under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), 504 (insult intended to provoke breach of peace), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
