However, sources say owing to BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s rally at Bandra Kurla Complex this Sunday, police will not immediately arrest the four accused, one of whom is the party’s ward president in the area. Cops believe that any attempts towards apprehending them ahead of the meet may result in friction. The accused are likely to be arrested on Monday.

MiD DAY had reported the matter yesterday (‘Claiming mobile theft, political party workers thrash two minors’). BJP ward president Bablu Singh, the main accused, and a few aides, allegedly picked up Wasim Mohammad Shafi and Ajay Dhakle on Tuesday evening. They suspected that the boys had stolen a mobile phone from them two months ago.