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Bengaluru Police Arrest Tarun Chaudhury Over Milk Parlour Assault Caught on CCTV

Viral footage of a parking-row attack at an Electronics City shop prompted a complaint, police say.

Overview

  • Hebbagodi/Electronics City police arrested 36-year-old Tarun Chaudhury, a Bihar native involved in real-estate dealings, in connection with the assault.
  • The incident occurred around 10 p.m. on October 9 in Electronics City Phase II and was captured in full by the shop’s CCTV cameras.
  • Police say Chaudhury arrived in a high-end SUV with two bodyguards, assaulted owner Gopal H. V. with a stick, slaps and kicks, and attacked the owner’s wife when she intervened.
  • The video circulating online also shows Chaudhury kicking and punching his own bodyguards after they tried to restrain him.
  • Officers booked him under BNS Sections 115, 126, 133, 351 and 74, produced him in court, and he has been remanded to judicial custody as the investigation continues.