Cops stop gathering for Friday prayers, pelted with stones in Karnataka town

Four policemen were injured when a group of people allegedly attacked m with stones after being asked t to gar for Friday prayers at a mosque in Hubballi in rth Karnataka, a top police official said.

Some among crowd also were injured in incident, Hubballi Police commissioner R Dileep said without elaborating. "Today prayers were called in certain prayer halls and people h gared re. Police on rounds requested m t to gar because of order of government and to contain spre of coronavirus disease but some people got sentimental about it,"

leers of ir community came re and persued agitated people to exercise restraint saying police were performing ir duties and y should t obstruct m.

"But inspite of it, some people got agitated and hurled some stones, in which four (police personnel) persons were injured. y got mir injuries. y are back on duty. re is thing alarming and equally some people from ir community got injured," commissioner said. Presently situation was peaceful because of efforts of police and community leers, he said ding patrolling was on.

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