BENGALURU: A 38-year-old woman shopping in a supermarket in BTM Layout II Stage, south Bengaluru, was allegedly bashed up by a 45-year-old man after she objected to him jumping the queue at the billing counter on Sunday morning.
Kishore Kumar, 46, resident of BTM Layout I Stage, was arrested from the supermarket after staffers alerted Mico Layout police. Police said Kumar worked in a private firm before quitting the job. He was released on bail on Tuesday.
Trouble began around 8am when the accused tried to jump the queue and the woman objected to it. Since it was a Sunday morning, a large crowd had gathered inside the supermarket and staff at the billing counters had requested customers to stand in boxes marked to ensure social distancing.
However, Kumar tried to jump the queue bypassing three women and two men who were ahead of him. One of the women raised an objection to Kumar’s conduct. Other customers too joined her and asked him to stand in the queue.
By then, Kumar began abusing the woman. Though she warned him to mind his words, Kumar continued his tirade. “I wanted to record his abuses and pulled out my iPhone. I raised my hand to record him when he suddenly hit me on my hand. My iPhone fell and I shouted for help. Then he slapped me on my face and dragged me down, holding my hair. I fell on a vegetable basket,” the woman told cops.
Customers and supermarket staff rushed to the woman’s help, while some men grabbed Kumar and held him. “Kumar continued to abuse me and tried to attack me again,” the woman, a private company employee, stated in her complaint.
Based on the complaint, police booked Kumar under IPC sections 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of Rs 50 or more), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage modesty).
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