B'luru New Year Eve assault video goes viral, 2 rowdies held

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A shocker video footage surfaced on Monday in IT city Bengaluru and as it went viral, shows a group of rowdies have brutally assaulted three persons riding on a motor bike on New Year’s Eve has shamed Bengaluru.

Based on the footage Bengaluru Police have arrested two rowdies in this connection for assaulting riders on Tuesday.

They have been identified as Ambareesh and lokesh and that the incident occurred in the Indira Nagar  a posh locality in Bengaluru.

Police in Bengaluru on Tuesday detained two men in connection with an assault on New Year’s Eve, a day after the footage of the incident surfaced showing a group of men brutally attacking three persons riding a two-wheeler.

According to Bengaluru Police commissioner T Suneel Kumar the incident came to light on January 15 and the video was released by a rival group.

He said, “We have registered a suo motu case of assault and public indecency and the two accused men were picked up on the basis of the video. It appears to be a case of road rage in a bylane of Indira Nagar.

 The video was released as a result of a rivalry between two gangs”. “We have tried to reach out to the victims, but even if we cannot contact them we will continue investigating based on the suo motu case,” he added.

The footage shows two men and a woman on the bike having an altercation with the rowdies on the by-line where they were celebrating.

 Then the rowdies assault them brutally and the footage went viral promoted police to arrest them.

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