Gujarat: Eight thrash two over old enmity in Amreli

RAJKOT: After a video on brutal thrashing of two persons confined in a room inside a crematorium in Babra town of Amreli district by eight persons went viral on social media, an FIR was filed against eight people on Friday and Babra police detained a few of the accused.
In the FIR, victim Ghanshyam Dudhrejiya said he had gone to the samadhi of a priest near the crematorium on June 25 when the accused approached him and asked him to follow them to a room in the crematorium.Here they accused him of stealing a cot from the crematorium and when he refuted their allegations, they started thrashing him with a plastic pipe, which was soon replaced with a wooden stuff. The ordeal continued for over an hour and later, they locked him up in an adjacent room.
The victim alleged that after the merciless beating, he had to be ferried in an 108 ambulance to Babra community health centre. Dudhrejiya said that the animosity originated from the fact that he had eloped with accused Dheeru Talsania’s daughter. Both Talsania and his wife too beat him up, he alleged.
“Initially, the victim was reluctant to register an FIR. However, after much coaxing he agreed to give a complaint but did not disclose the name of the other victim. We will find it during investigation,” Amreli DySP Jagdishsinh Bhandari told TOI.
A complaint under IPC sections 323, 504, 506 (2) registered against the eight accused.