Bengaluru pub brawl: Congress MLA Haris’ son surrenders
Karnataka Youth Congress general secretary Mohammed Nalapad, who is the son of Congress MLA NA Haris, allegedly attacked a youth along with his friends after an argument at a pub in UB City Mall on Saturday night.
Karnataka Youth Congress general secretary Mohammed Nalapad, who is
accused of assaulting a man in a Bengaluru pub, surrendered before
police on Monday. Son of Congress MLA NA Haris, 30-year-old Nalapad
allegedly attacked a youth along with his friends at a pub in UB City
Mall on Saturday night. With the elections just around the corner, the
Congress took moved swiftly and removed Nalapad from the party for six
years.
The victim, Vidwat, 28, who was injured in the brawl, is undergoing
treatment at Mallya Hospital. Nalapad and his friends are also accused
of visting the victim in the hospital and threatening him and his
friends against lodging a police complaint.
An FIR was later registered against Nalapad and ten others in
connection with the assault. In the past too, Nalapad and his associates
were allegedly involved in a pub brawl in his father’s Shanthinagar
constituency but no police complaint was lodged at the time.
Soon after the incident, Congress working president Dinesh Gundu Rao
wrote on Twitter: “Ghastly incident..nobody is above law..police have to
take strict action and arrest all concerned, who so ever they may be.
Also Mohammed Haris Nalapad will be expelled from the Congress party for
his involvement in this terrible act. Condemn in the strongest words.”
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the law must take its course and the
police must bring to book whoever is guilty. “Offenders should be
punished to the full extent of law regardless of who they are,”
Siddaramaiah said.
Saturday’s brawl allegedly began following an argument over
infringement of space in a crowded area in the pub. Nalapad allegedly
objected to Vidwat, who came to the pub in a leg cast, taking up space
to stretch his injured foot. This led to a heated argument and then
Nalapad allegedly called his associates to the mall and assaulted the
victim.
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