The bail petition of Mohammad Harris Nalapad, son of Karnataka Congress MLA has been rejected by a Bengaluru court. The court also rejected the bail petition of six others who were involved in an assault case.
All the accused are in Judicial custody since January 21 for assaulting a man in a restaurant on February 17, 2018. They have been sent to judicial custody till March 7.
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“Court expressed that there are going to be chances of witnesses getting influenced and the investigation getting coerced. It is a victory for justice and society at large,” said the public prosecutor.
As per the sequence of events, the victim was having dinner at a restaurant in UB City when Nalapad and his friends walked in at 11:30 pm. The group reportedly told the victim, who had a plaster on one of his legs, to “sit properly”.
This led to a heated exchange of words, following which Nalppad and his friends brutally beaten up the man. After the incident, the man was rushed to the hospital in severe condition.
Nalappad was the general secretary of Bengaluru city youth Congress before getting expelled following his involvement in the incident.
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