4 individuals have been arrested on Saturday for allegedly assaulting two bakery house owners close to Kundalahalli Gate underneath the HAL police station limits, police mentioned on Sunday.
The incident occurred on Thursdaybut got here to the fore on Friday after a video of the conflict was shared on social media platforms, mentioned police. HT has seen the video.
The accused have been recognized as Manjunath, proprietor of a tea stall and his associates, Karthik (20), a supply govt, Karthik (23) who’s a lodge supervisor, and Salman (20) a manufacturing facility employee in Marathahalli.
Accused Manjunath was apprehensive that the bakery was affecting his enterprise by making extra income, mentioned a police official. The tea stall proprietor received some individuals to threaten the bakery employees, mentioned the police.
“The bakery and the tea stall are located in an in depth proximity to one another. The tea stall proprietor was apprehensive concerning the bakery making extra income than him. So, he wished to scare him. He had referred to as a few of the individuals who used to return to his stall, to threaten the bakery employees,” mentioned Whitefield deputy commissioner of police S Girish.
Within the video of the incident, which was broadly shared on social media, at the least eight males may be seen on the bakery, assaulting the shopkeeper. The boys have been seen assaulting the shopkeeper with trays and a helmet and, vandalising the bakery, police mentioned.
The accused visited the store as clients and allegedly ordered tea and cigarettes, mentioned police. Later, they picked a combat over the fee of the invoice, the police mentioned. Bakery proprietor Naveen Kumar Shetty additionally alleged that the accused had robbed his gold chain, a cell phone, and money from the bakery. Shetty can be the complainant.
Following the incident, a number of members of the bakery house owners’ affiliation gathered earlier than the HAL police station on HAL police station on Friday demanding motion towards the miscreants.
To this point, 4 individuals have been arrested based mostly on the CCTV footage of the incident, mentioned the police. A case has been registered underneath fees of theft and assault of the Indian Penal Code, mentioned police.
“A video on Twitter exhibits eight individuals barging right into a bakery and assaulting the shopkeeper. 4 of those have already been arrested on fees of assault and theft. The investigation remains to be underway for the remainder,” the official Twitter deal with of Bengaluru police learn.