Overview

• City Market Police arrested shop owner Umed Ram and employee Mahendra Seervi on charges including assault and outraging the modesty of a woman.
• Eyewitness videos from Avenue Road in Chickpet show the pair dragging, slapping, and kicking the woman in public before handing her to police.
• The woman was earlier booked for theft and remanded to judicial custody after police said they recovered part of the sarees.
• An FIR filed by Ram alleges the theft of 61 sarees from Maya Silk Sarees on September 20, with reports valuing the items at about Rs 91,500.
• After the footage spread online and activists protested, senior officers said assault charges were added, with City Market police conduct under review.