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Karnataka
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Thirteen people, including six policemen, were injured in the attack that took place around 10.15 p.m. The armed group, from Marasandra village, led by Lakshminarayana Gowda, a Congress member of the Doddaballapur Taluk Panchayat, freed two youths from the village who were arrested under the SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act and detained in the police station. The mob came to the police station in a lorry, two Tempos, and a jeep. The Superintendent of Police, Bangalore Rural District, Bhaskar Rao, said that in order to disperse the mob, which ransacked the police station, and damaged windowpanes, furniture, and a police jeep, the Doddabelavengala Sub-Inspector fired three rounds in the air from his service revolver. Mr. Rao said that when the people of Marasandra went on a rampage, the residents of Doddabelavengala thought that Naxalites from Andhra Pradesh had attacked the police station and came to the rescue of the police. More than 200 people of Doddabelavengala fought the mob and chased them away. "We are grateful to the residents of Doddabelavengala who saved our honour and dignity," Mr. Rao said. Police arrested 11 people, including Lakshminarayana Gowda, and seized the vehicles in which they came. The attack on the police station was said to have been in retaliation for the arrest of Mahesh and Krishnadevaraya, alias Kitti, on a charge of assaulting and abusing a dalit woman, Chikkahanumakka, of Marasandra on April 12. Chikkahanumakka and her relative, Ramanjinappa, were involved in a land dispute and the court passed orders in favour of the former. After the court ruling, Ramanjinappa took the matter to Lakshminarayana Gowda, who is the local taluk panchayat member, for a settlement. When Chikkahanumakka did not heed the latter's "orders", his supporters, Mahesh and Kitti, allegedly assaulted and abused her in the presence of the Doddabelavengala Sub-Inspector, H.J. Thippeswamy, Mr. Rao said. Subsequently, the police registered a case against Mahesh and Kitti and arrested them on Wednesday night and lodged them in the Doddabelavengala Police Station. On the other hand, Lakshminarayana Gowda's supporters, and residents of Marasandra, maintained that the police had booked false cases under the SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act against Mahesh and Kitti. "When we went to the police station to register our protest, police fired at us and we turned violent," some residents of Marasandra said. But Mr. Rao dismissed these allegations and said that when the attack took place there was a power shutdown, and only six constables were in the station. The Sub-Inspector, who was at home, came to the police station after he learned about the attack and then opened fire in the air, he maintained. A Head Constable who suffered head injuries in the attack had been admitted to the Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital here, and two residents of Doddabelavengala who were seriously injured were being treated at the Government Hospital in Doddaballapur, Mr. Rao said.
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