Man thrashed for wearing tank-top to an RCB match

RCB vs SRH qualifier takes ugly turn in Koramangala

Watching a game of cricket with your friends over a few beers could be injurious to your health. And if the man happens to be wearing slightly revealing clothes, then he’s had it.

A civil contractor who decided to head down to a pub in Kormanagala as his favourite team (Royal Challengers Bangalore) was squaring off against Sunrisers Hyderabad last Saturday, realised that the 20-over format leads to heightened tempers and unnecessary aggression off the field as well.

The 33-year-old man (who preferred not to reveal his name; so let’s just call him Thimma) put on a tank-top, bunched up with three of his friends and landed at the Badmaash pub in Koramangala 5th Block. The mood in the pub soon took a hit as RCB were bundled out at 120 for seven.

Around 10 pm, things started heating up for Thimma in the smoking zone. He and his friends were sitting there watching the match slip away from RCB when he noticed that a group of younger men and women started staring at him and cracking jokes. He ignored them.

(Thimma is certain that the jokes were due to his tank-top).



“I ignored them initially as all of them looked like they were in their twenties. But then I asked one of them ‘Are you from Bangalore?’ to which the man rudely replied ‘No, we are from Pakistan’,” Thimma told Bangalore Mirror, repeating what he had asked the Koramangala police to write in the FIR.

Thimma said that he realised that all of them were in a bad mood -- probably high too -- so he decided to exit the smoking zone and return to his table.

But as the match entered its final stages, everybody returned to the smoking zone. And so did Thimma and his friends.

This time, the man who had rudely answered Thimma’s query started heckling him; he used expletives too, alleged Thimma. (Sunrisers Hyderabad had beaten RCB in the 14th over with five wickets still in hand.) Although Thimma tried to remain calm, his friends found the man’s heckling a little too much. Thimma claims that his friends were being protective as he suffers from deep vein thrombosis. But this angered the rude man’s friends and they started raining punches on Thimma, hitting him on his head, back and shoulders. Thimma then called a few of his friends who were at the Hangover pub downstairs and managed to pacify the aggressive youngsters who were probably looking to vent out their frustration over the match result.


Thimma, a resident of BEML Layout, then went down to the Koramangala police station with his friends and filed a formal complaint. A senior police officer said his officials then called up the pub and blasted the manager for not reporting the assault to the police. Later, a police officer arrived at the pub and took the names and phone numbers of the pub visitors from the registers and summoned them to the police station. “Due to covid protocols, all pub goers have to give their name and phone number at the entrance,” Thimma said, adding that this helped the police catch hold of his attackers.

The police booked the accused under various sections of the Indian Penal code, including wrongful restraint, criminal assault, criminal intimidation, and intentional insult provoking breach of peace. The two culprits who assaulted Thimma were identified as Akshat Jain and J Kotari. “The two have been arrested and remanded in judicial custody,” said the police officer.