Police have registered a case against 12 persons in connection with the attack on the car of IAS officer C. Umashankar near Kuzhithurai Friday when he was returning here after participating in a prayer meeting.
On the basis of a complaint lodged by driver Samuel, the Marthandam police registered the case.
The prayer meeting, organised in a house near Pudukkadai in Kanyakumari district, triggered tension on Friday.
When people from nearby areas started gathering at the house to participate in it, a group of people from another religion gathered in protest. Police used mild charge to disperse the group and allowed the prayer meeting to go on.