Three policemen were injured in an attack by a mob while they were trying to nab a criminal in Maharashtra's Thane district, said officials. The incident took place at Kasai Wada in Bhiwandi town on Friday (July 2) when a joint team of the Gujarat police and Bhiwandi crime branch, in plain clothes, went in search of Jamil Qureshi (38), against whom criminal offences were registered by Valsad police in the neighbouring state. In a bid to evade arrest, Qureshi jumped out of the window of his flat, located on the fourth floor of a building, and died, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bhiwandi Zone, Yogesh Chavan said.

The family members of the deceased and locals subsequently came out in the locality and alleged that the policemen pushed him to death. The irate mob also allegedly manhandled some policemen, the official said. Some videos, purportedly showing a number of men and women beating up policemen and hitting them with stones, went viral on social media.