Bengaluru: Drunk youths target bar, torch adjacent shop

BENGALURU: Two youths, who wanted to avenge the staff of a bar in south Bengaluru after a brawl, ended up setting on fire an adjacent condiment store as they were too drunk to recognise their target.
KS Layout police on Monday arrested Mounesh Karihole, 27, of Nagarbhavi and Mounesh Sannagoudar, 26, of Yelachenahalli, both from Raichur, for the December 16 arson in Konanakunte. Karihole, a cab driver and Sannagoudar, a construction worker, had damaged the washroom of the bar on the night December 14 in an inebriated condition, leading to a clash between them and the staff.
Revanna Siddappa H, owner of Parameshwara Condiments, near Kubera Bar in Konanakunte filed a complaint against unknown miscreants. According to him, at 1.30am on December 16, two unidentified persons poured petrol on the door of his shop and set it on fire. A supplier of the bar saw the fire and immediately rushed to the spot and poured water. Though there was no major damage to valuables, Siddappa wanted to know who had set the fire.
KS Layout police swung into action and learnt about the brawl at the bar. The duo had broken the toilet washbasin and paid a fine for that. Probe revealed that the arson was the handiwork of the duo.
“They wanted to take revenge on the bar staff, so they went to torch the bar after getting fully drunk. Instead of the bar, they wrongly set fire to the shop located next to that and fled,” an officer said.