Overview

• The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday on Panigate Mandvi Road as an idol was being taken for installation ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi, defiling the idol and causing injury and local tension.
• Police arrested Sufian Mansuri, 20, and Shahnawaz Qureshi, 29, and detained a minor, with the juvenile produced before the Juvenile Justice Board.
• An FIR cites Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 196, 298, 115 and 324 for promoting enmity, defiling a place of worship, voluntarily causing hurt and mischief.
• Multiple teams scanned CCTV and used human and technical inputs to identify the suspects within hours, with interrogations continuing and further bookings under consideration.
• During a reconstruction, video showed the arrested men apologising; police say the pair admitted throwing five eggs as a prank while officers examine whether the act was premeditated.