Bengaluru: Three held for assaulting migrant worker from Bihar for wearing saffron-coloured towel

Three men were arrested in Bengaluru for allegedly assaulting a 26-year-old migrant worker from Bihar for wearing a saffron-coloured towel, The New Indian Express reported on Tuesday.

The worker’s colleague was also reportedly assaulted in the incident.

The persons accused in the matter, M Tabrez (30), W Imran Khan (35) and A Azeej Khan (47), have been remanded in judicial custody for 15 days, Bengaluru West Deputy Commissioner of Police S Girish told The Indian Express.

The incident took place on Sunday night at a transport agency office opposite the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus stand in Kalasipalya locality, the newspaper reported.

The victim, Slindher Kumar, worked at the agency as a cargo handler.

The first information report, filed by agency manager Harikrishna, claimed that the three men visited the agency around 9.30 pm and confronted Kumar while he was working, The New Indian Express reported.

They allegedly demanded that he remove his saffron towel and questioned why he was wearing it.

They then allegedly abused and assaulted him.

When Harikrishna tried to intervene, he too was beaten and his shirt was torn during the scuffle, The Indian Express quoted the FIR as saying.

The Kalasipalya police have registered a case under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult to provoke a breach of peace and acts deliberately intended to wound...

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