Tumkuru, September 4: The incident where the supporters of Congress leader Inayat Ullah who won from 16th ward in the city corporation during victory celebration, were injured in a chemical attack was not purposefully, said SP Dr Divya Gopinath.

Speaking to the reporters, she said that it was an accidental incident. The supporters of Inayat Ullah took out a victory procession from Koti Topu from ward number 16 and reached the 3rd cross in Barline road. At this moment, a person threw a liquid in a bottle on the gathering and in that incident, some of the party workers were injured. But it was mistaken as acid attack. A minor boy who is also the supporter of the candidate, took a plastic green colour bottle kept at the window of a house had mixed water and blue colour and while rotating it, it was spread on the group and some people including the boy injured in the incident, she said.

The bottle contained toilet cleaning acid. Without knowing that it was acid, the boy sprinkled it mixing with water and colour. It was not an intentional incident, she clarified.

Led by DySP K.R Chandrashekar, PSI Vijayalakshmi, PSI C.R Bhaskar and team interrogated the accused based on the video footage and confirmed it. She also appreciated the police personnel for identifying the reason for the incident. The liquid used during the incident was sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory, she said.

Additional SP Dr Shobha Rani, and other police officers were present at the press conference.

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Agra, Apr 6 (PTI): A man was arrested for allegedly harassing and touching inappropriately a tourist from the Czech Republic visiting the Taj Mahal, police said on Sunday.

The alleged incident occurred on April 3 and the arrest was made after a thorough investigation, they said.

In a written complaint at the Tourist police station, the woman alleged that she was "touched inappropriately and harassed" while walking along the Shamshan Ghat Road around 1 pm, they added.

The police registered a case and began a probe, deploying multiple teams to nab the accused.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (Taj Security) Syed Areeb Ahmed said, "A case was registered on the complaint of the foreign woman. Several teams were deployed to search for the accused. (Footage from) several CCTV cameras covering the area was scanned. After investigation, the accused Karan Rathore was arrested on Sunday."

The woman has identified Rathore as the accused and he has been taken into custody, the officer said.