Two attacked in Morbi over past rift

Rajkot: Two persons were attacked and their houses were pelted with stones and glass bottles in Morbi on Tuesday evening over a past rift.
The victim Abdul Vhatti and his friend Gul Mohammed were sitting at a junction near their home in Machhipith area when they were assaulted by six persons. The six accused have been identified as Shahrukh Khod, Hussain Khod, Aslam Khod, Iran Khod, Jusab Khod and Imran Khod.The duo was beaten up with pipe and wooden sticks.
As they somehow managed to escape, both, Vhatti and Gul Mohammed hid in Vhatti’s house. The six accused, however, reached there as well and hurled abuses at them as well as threatened them to come out. When they did not come, the attackers pelted stones and glass bottles at Vhatti’s house damaging the windows. Somebody in the area later called police due to which the rioters fled from there. A video of attack was shot by an unidentified person on mobile phone which was widely circulated.
Vhatti’s 80-year-old father Habib lodged an offence of rioting against the six accused. He told police that Vhatti and Shahrukh had heated arguments when the former was taking a walk near latter’s house some two days ago.
When Shahrukh questioned Vhatti, he ignored him due to which Shahrukh hurled abuses at him which led to the verbal altercation.