Overview
- Bengaluru police arrested five men Monday after a group allegedly beat a 20-year-old domestic worker in her Varthur home Friday night.
- The FIR cites the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s new criminal code, for stalking, criminal intimidation, outraging modesty, causing hurt with sticks, and insult meant to provoke a breach of peace.
- Investigators identified the suspects as migrant labourers from a nearby colony and said more attackers are being traced.
- The woman told police the men had stalked her for days and later threatened to kill her during identification at the station.
- Neighbours pulled her to safety after the men broke the door, assaulted her and water supplier Riyaz, and a city activist is now housing her.