Manipal: Six including minor arrested for assualting an engineering student

Manipal: Six including minor arrested for assualting an engineering student

Mangalore Today News Network

Udupi, Mar 26, 2024: Manipal police on Monday, March 25, arrested six persons in connection with assaulting an engineering student on Saturday night (March 23) by tresspassing into the apartment in which he lived in Manipal.

Udupi police gave the names of the arrested as Rishith Hegde, 20, of Alevoor, Gagan Ganesh, 20, of Ulthoor, Kanishk Hegde, 20, of Bailoor, Karkala, Vidith Shetty, 19, of Udupi and Ankith Shetty, 20, of Ambalapady. The sixth one was a 17-year-old minor.

They faced the charges of assaulting a third year computer science student of an engineering college in Manipal.

Police said that the accused assaulted the student, Arush Kumar, in a lounge bar in Manipal on Saturday night over a trivial issue. Later, they followed him to his apartment at Ishwar Nagara in Manipal and assaulted him again. Police watched the footage of a CCTV camera installed at the apartment which had recorded the scene of six persons assaulting the student on the verandah.

Based on the inputs given by the student and the footage, police arrested the accused.

The accused had left the apartment when occupants of other rooms came to the rescue of Mr. Kumar.

Police registered a case under Sections 143, 147, 448, 323, 504, 506 read with 149 of IPC against the six accused.