Bengaluru: City police arrested a youth on Sunday for allegedly attacking, beating up, molesting and wrongfully restraining a woman tenant at his father's apartment in Sanjaynagar, north Bengaluru.
The accused has been identified as K Manjunath Gowda, a man in his 30s. Police booked Gowda under different sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 126 (wrongful restraint), 351 (criminal intimidation), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 74 (criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty).
The complainant is a 26-year-old nurse, residing in the apartment where Gowda lives with his family. According to her, the incident took place around 10.30pm on Dec 3 near the apartment's main gate, when she went to collect a parcel. "Gowda saw me and started speaking to me. But I ignored him since he was under the influence of alcohol. An angry Gowda slapped me and tried to strangle me with his hands. He pushed me towards the wall and when I resisted, he bit my finger, injuring it. When I started running towards my flat, he tried to grab me and drag me into his flat," she said. "The same morning, he had peeped through the window of my flat, asking whether he could come in. He has done similar things earlier also," she stated in her complaint.
Responding to the media on the arrest, Gowda's father Kempegowda said there were complaints about woman's behaviour by other tenants and they too would lodge a complaint against her.