Group of 50 persons booked for protest outside police station

Urwa police have booked a group of 50 persons for staging protest in front of the Mangaluru Traffic East police station on February 5 by holding the body of 24-year-old Deepti, who died in a road accident in Nantoor on Wednesday.

In a suo motu complaint, the police said the group came in two-wheelers and cars along with an ambulance carrying the body of Deepti. The ambulance was taking the body from the the private hospital in Kuntikana to Deepti’s house in Ballalbagh.

In front of the police station, the group stopped their vehicles and also the ambulance and staged a snap protest seeking action against the driver and conductor of the city bus which hit the scooter in which Deepti was the pillion rider.

The police accused protestors of causing obstruction to official discharge of work. They were also accused of obstructing movement of traffic and disturbing peace in the area. The police named nine protestors as accused in the FIR.

Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy said the police cannot tolerate protests done by holding body of an accident victim.