Youth assaulted in moral policing incident, 4 arrested

BELAGAVI: In a case of alleged moral policing, a youth was assaulted by a group when he was talking to a girl belonging to a different community, near Savagaon on the outskirts of th city on Sunday night. Four people have been arrested in this connection while the police are on the lookout for two other accused.

The victim Allauddin Peerzade was talking to a girl from a different community when he was assaulted. In his torn shirt, the youth went to the Belagavi Rural police station and lodged a complaint.

Based on the complaint, the police arrested Santosh Jadhav, Sumit, Videsh and Jaya Injala while they are looking for another accused and booked them for attempted murder. The arrested were produced before a court and sent to Hindalga jai.