A man from Bagalkote district in Karnataka was arrested by the police after visuals of him assaulting a female lawyer went viral on social media.
The man, Mahantesh, assaulted Sangeetha, a lady lawyer, and her husband over a land dispute in broad daylight. A video of the assault has gone viral on Twitter with over 500,000 views.
Based on this, Bagalkote town police have arrested Mahantesh and charged him with assault. Sangeetha and Mahantesh are reportedly neighbours.
#SHOCKING A #woman #lawyer named Sangeetha was brutally assaulted and injured at #Bagalkote #Karnataka. #Worse: many people watched and didn't come forward to help her. Sangeetha and her assaulter Mahantesh are neighbours.And they had differences over some issue pic.twitter.com/D3KhJRc2fU
— Mohammad fasahathullah siddiqui (@MdFasahathullah) May 14, 2022
Despite the video being a mere eight seconds, the visuals are brutal and horrific.
The video of the incident shows Mahantesh attacking Sangeetha with rage and force. The video begins with the man kicking the woman in her stomach and her reeling and taking a few steps back in pain.
Mahantesh proceeds to slap her hard a few times and the woman drops a few papers she is holding. He continues to kick and slap her a few more times.
Police arrested Manthesh and said that he had attacked the woman due to personal enmity regarding a civil dispute case.