Daijiworld Media Network-Mangaluru (RJP)
Mangaluru, Mar 30: In relation to the abduction and assault case of an eighth standard student, Mulky police have arrested 8 persons.
The arrested persons are Jamaluddin (20) and Mohammed Ali (28) from Thokur Haleyangady, Taushif (28), Sharif (43) and Abdul Aziz (23) from K S Rao Nagara, Shakir (24) from Bappanadu, Mussafa (26) from Kilpady and Safwan (19) from Darga Road Mulky.
In a complaint filed in Mulky police station on Saturday March 28, parents of an eighth standard student of a school in Karnad near Mulky had said that their son was abducted from his hostel and assaulted near Dargah Road here.
A gang comprising about 20 youth had abducted the boy from his hostel on Saturday afternoon and beat him up later. The reason for the assault was that the eighth standard boy had become friendly with a girl from his class and used to converse with her often. On the day of the assault, the boy is said to have asked the girl as to why she was crying in the class.
The boy in question, Manjunath stays in the hostel near Karnad telephone exchange meant for backward classes and attends school at Karnad.
Some more persons of the gang which abducted and assaulted the boy, have been still absconding and the police are on the look out for them.