Mangaluru: The Mangaluru city police chief has denied that any police constable was suspended for thrashing members of the public who were behaving in an unruly manner near Kallapu, during Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Mangaluru.

The clarification from city police commissioner T R Suresh comes hours after rumours were spread that a police constable who was on duty during Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Mangaluru, was suspended for thrashing unruly onlookers on the national highway.

Speaking to, Suresh maintained that the police constable might have done it due to security concerns, and that he has suspended no one on this count.

Sources claimed that the incident took place during Rahul’s visit to Ullal Dargah, late on Tuesday evening. A huge group of youth had gathered on both sides of the highway in Kallapu.

It is alleged that their presence beside the road on both sides caused the road to be blocked, and that the police on duty took exception to it, due to security reasons. As the youth did not budge, the police had to use force to move them back, he said.