Overview

• Police arrested shop owner Umed Ram, 44, and employee Mahendra Seervi, 25, for assaulting a 55-year-old woman on Avenue Road in Bengaluru.
• CCTV footage showed a bundle of 61 sarees worth about ₹91,500 being taken from Maya Silk Sarees on September 20, and the woman was confronted the next day.
• Eyewitness videos captured the woman being dragged, slapped and kicked in public before being handed over to police.
• Officers initially booked only the woman for theft and recovered part of the sarees, then arrested the two men after the videos spread and activists protested.
• The assailants face charges including assault and outraging the modesty of a woman, all three are in judicial custody under separate FIRs, and senior police are examining the handling by City Market officers.