The Belagavi police arrested nine of the 17 persons accused of assaulting a man and a woman in the city on Saturday.
The mob was under the wrong impression that the two were in an inter-faith relationship. However, it turned out that they are brother and sister, related to inter-faith couples. The girl happens to be the daughter of the boy’s aunt, who is married to a man of another faith.
On Saturday, the mob waylaid the man, 23, and the woman, 22, who were sitting on the Fort Lake Tankbed and talking.
