Special team set up for investigation afterone more group clash in Uppinangady

Attacks over enmity, retaliation give communal colour to incidents

Close on the heels of two incidents of group clash at Ilanthila in Uppinangady on Sunday night, another attack took place there on Monday night, giving the incidents a communal colour.

Mohandas Shetty, who runs a fish vending stall at Subrahmanya Cross in Uppinangady, along with his younger brother, Ashok Kumar Shetty, complained to the Uppinangady Police that a group of about 25 people reached his stall on motorcycles and a car and randomly assaulted him, his brother and a customer Mahesh with sharp weapons on Monday night.

This is believed to be in retaliation to group clashes reported from Ilanthila village near Uppinangady on Sunday night, Mohandas said in his complaint. That shop was gutted on the night of August 22 and the Uppinangady Police had registered a case on a complaint by Ashok who said that the previous day a few persons had issued a threat to him against running his fish vending business.