4 more Juhapura residents nabbed for attacking police

Vejalpur police nabbed four more Juhapura residents in connection with Saturday's gruesome attack on a police convoy.

After arresting four of the accused on Sunday, another four were arrested on Monday after a daylong search and combing operation in Juhapura.

The cops have been looking for 16 of the main accused ever since the attack on policemen and their vehicle on Saturday. After the Vejalpur police's arrest of eight locals involved in the attack, the number of people nabbed has reached 10, as two of the accused were also arrested by the crime branch on Sunday.

On Sunday, after a combing operation in the interiors of Juhapura and Vejalpur, police caught four men including Yunus Shaikh, Abdul Shaikh, Mohammad Yunus Ibrahim, and Mohammad Sharif Rasul Shaikh, all residents of Sankalitnagar. To dig up information regarding the involvement of others in the atrocity, Vejalpur police presented them before the court and acquired their remand until Wednesday. The men were booked under various charges including attempt to murder, rioting and provocation.

The city's crime branch had also nabbed two accused and handed them over to the Vejalpur police on Monday. These two men were identified as Iqbal Sipahi, 46, and his accomplice Mohsin Ghulam Dastgir, 26. According to the police, Sipahi orchestrated the attack on the cops, while they were leaving from Sankalitnagar in Juhapura after rescuing 12 calves.

On Saturday evening, Vejalpur police sent their staff in two police vehicles to rescue 12 calves from the hands of butchers in Sankalitnagar. After confrontation with the notorious butcher Iqbal Sipahi, police finally managed to rescue the cows and left the area.

In the mean time, a D-staff Tata Sumo car also joined the convoy for their safety. On their way out, a mob attacked the Sumo, as it fallen behind the two other police vehicles. The mob started pelting stones at the vehicle, forcing two D-staff cops to run for their lives, but they were captured and roughed up by more than 200 locals, led by Sipahi and his accomplices. The vehicle was overturned by the mob and set ablaze with diesel and kerosene. The two policemen barely managed to escape alive.