Mangaluru : A Rikshwa Tempo driver assaulted by a group of five persons for transporting beef to Kankanady Market near the Highland Hospital in Falnir on Sunday, June 21.

The driver Rasheed was transporting 200 kg of beef in his tempo to Kankanady Market.

It is said that the group followed the tempo by car and two-wheelers and waylaid the vehicle and assault him in the middle of the road near Highland hospital.

The group attacked driver and damaged the rickshaw tempo and poured kerosene into the beef.

As per the complaint Kadri police registered a case against the alleged assaulters and are searching them.

Meat Traders’ Association and Kankanady Market Association’s president Ali Hasan has condemned the incident in which the group attacked a man for transporting meat from Kudroli slaughterhouse.