The Cyberabad police arrested 16 persons for alleged involvement in the group clash at Janwada on Wednesday. The 16 accused include the sarpanch, 10 villagers and five members of the church. Police said that the arrests were made following a counter complaint filed by the village residents on Wednesday.
As per the remand report of the cases, a copy of which is in possession of The Hindu, the members of the church were identified as Anthigalla Raju (38), Appagalla Ramulu (43), Anthigalla Prabhkhar (40), Kolluru Balaiah (54) and Madduri Ramesh (31), all residents of Janwada.
B. Veera Babu, Inspector of Mokila Police station, said that Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC was added in the counter complaint, following which the five were arrested and remanded on Thursday.
