Kozhikode: Individuals couldn’t be accommodated on the venue.(File)
Kozhikode:
One particular person has been arrested and a case lodged towards 50 individuals for attacking the police on Sunday night time after it shut down a live performance held at a seaside right here following overcrowding on the venue and disturbance created by those that couldn’t be accommodated.
Police stated that those that couldn’t be accommodated on the venue created a disturbance and the overcrowding additionally led to break to barricades.
Because of this, police have been pressured to cease the programme which in flip resulted in them being assaulted by some members of the general public utilizing stones and beer bottles, a senior officer of Vellayil police station stated.
Six policemen and greater than 30 members of most people have been injured because of the throwing of stones and beer bottles by a bit of the group, he stated and added that further power needed to be referred to as in to regulate the scenario.
The officer stated {that a} case for assaulting police personnel and stopping them from doing their obligation has been registered towards 50 individuals and one among them has additionally been arrested.
Moreover that, a case has additionally been registered towards the occasion organisers — JDT Faculty Palliative Care right here — for conducting the occasion with out enough amenities and never in accordance with the permission granted to them, he stated.
The officer stated the faculty was solely permitted to erect stalls and showcase some small cultural reveals by college students on the seaside as a part of their charity occasion to generate funds to purchase wheelchairs.
Nonetheless, they determined to carry a live performance and marketed the identical by way of social media platforms and likewise offered tickets on-line for Rs 150 per particular person, police stated.
Because it was a Sunday, an enormous crowd arrived on the seaside and plenty of additionally purchased tickets on-line. However all of them couldn’t be accommodated and after a while the sale of tickets on the venue additionally needed to be stopped, resulting in the disturbance, police stated.
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