Bengaluru has been in the news for all the wrong reasons of late.
First some videos of molestation of women were doing the rounds of the social media and now it is a video of a group of people hitting a north eastern student that has created a furore.
The video showing a landlord beating up a Mizo student a few days back which surfaced on Wednesday has shocked the people of Bengaluru.
The video shows a Mizoram man getting beaten up by three residents of Banaswadi area in Bengaluru.
The incident came to light when members of the North East Students’ Association approached the police and a suo motu case of assault was registered. The three assaulters were arrested on January 11.
According to police the incident occurred at 2 am and the victim was the tenant of the accused.
The police sources said they have arrested Clifford Wilson (80), retired security officer, Carlton Wilson (56), former school principal, and lynn Wilson (54), assistant manager with a private bank.
The video shows how two men and a woman assault a student, identified as Jerry, and his friend.
A man wearing white lungi abuses and hits Jerry with a stick and later with his hands. When another man tried to intervene, the woman warns him off.
The alleged assaulter is apparently the landlord of the two North Eastern tenants. After thrashing them, they also asked the tenants to leave the area. When Jerry heard the sound of a vehicle falling and went down to check if it was his, the neighbours started abusing him because he had parked his vehicle in front of their house.
Atrocities against people from the North-East of India have been in the news for a few years now.
Recently, a video uploaded on streaming platform YouTube shows two youths being assaulted by a sticks outside a house in Bengaluru. The video uploaded on January 11, 2017 claims to be shot by a neighbour and States that the incident took place on Sampanna Road, Banaswadi in Bengaluru on December 26 2016.