Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP) 

Udupi, Nov 8: It is said that Ashis, Shanu and Tahim were sitting with a Hindu girl at Bhujanga Park, Ajjarkad here on November 2, when some youngsters including Sunil Poojary and Rakesh Suvarna approached them, asked them to show their identity cards, and attacked Ashis. In connection with this incident, two separate complaints were filed in the town police station here. 

Relating to this dispute, the police had brought both the groups to the police station and talked to them. At the request of the girl's father, no formal complaint was registered. But the girl issued a written statement in which she said that she was sitting in the park with some friends on November 2 when a gang of eight to nine people attacked her friends.

It has also been said that on November 4, the photographs of Ashis and her were downloaded from Facebook and circulated through WhatsApp. In her complaint on November 5, she said when she was speaking with friends in the park, the youngsters attacked them and clicked photos. 

In another complaint connected with the incident, a person named Krishnananda has alleged that at 8 pm on November 2, Ashis Ali was behaving indecently with a Hindu girl at Bhujanga Park, Ajjarkadu, and when he and his friends questioned, Ashis, Harshad Ali and some others used abusive words against them, attacked them, and hurled expletives at their caste. 

The police are looking into both these complaints. In a release, the police have warned that photographs of this said couple and unsubstantiated information about them should not be circulated through social websites. They said that those who violate this instruction will be moved against legally.