Eleven persons, including three policemen, were injured in a clash between police and villagers in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district today.
Three policemen, who went to serve a court summons at Changodara village in Talala tehsil (Gir Somnath district), were injured when a group of people attacked them with sticks and hurled stones at them, Police Inspector V M Kumar of Talala police station said.
Eight villagers also sustained injuries and police reinforcement was sent to control the situation, Kumar said.
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"They (villagers) might have felt that police had come to arrest a few of the villagers but those policemen had just gone to hand over a court summons to a person in a case of prohibition," Kumar said.
The mob first thrashed police constable Iqbal Sheikh and then some villagers armed with bamboo sticks beat the other two constables Yasin Shah and Mahesh Mewada, Kumar said.
According to Kumar, Sarpanch of the village Umar Abdul Baria provoked the crowd to launch attack on police and following his orders the villagers manhandled the policemen.
Villagers also tore the court papers and tried to clinch the weapons of the policemen, Kumar said.
Constable Iqbal sustained injuries on his face while Shah and Mewada fractured their legs, he added.
"The policemen first ran away from the spot and called for extra police force following which additional force was sent there. But the villagers kept hurling the stones at us," Kumar said.
The officer said that police were trying to control the situation and a probe into the matter will be initiated afterwards.
A similar clash of between police and villagers had been recently reported at Dabhel village of Navsari district where five persons were injured. Similar incidents were also reported in Vadodara and Ahmedabad recently.
