The accused are Vivek Kumar Singh (33), a UPSC aspirant and BTech graduate, and his friends Manish Kumar (23), Suhel Akram (32), Gaurav Sharma (23), and Balram (32).
Kumar, who was in Vadodara to chair a panel discussion on the topic 'Beyond the Call of Duty, stories of those in Uniform' at the Vadodara Literature Festival organised by Parul University, also visited the city Police Bhavan to meet officials of the Vadodara city police.