DJ in Bengaluru pub held for assaulting guest who requested Kannada song
India Today
Police arrested the DJ, Siddarth Malhotra, who claimed that language wasn’t the issue. He claims he assaulted the customer for rude behaviour and hurling filthy abuses.
A disk Jockey (DJ) was arrested in a pub in Bengaluru’s Koramanagala on Saturday night after he allegedly assaulted a guest for requesting a Kannada song. The DJ, who was booked by the police, claims that he assaulted the customer for hurling filthy abuse.
The incident took place in Badmash, a pub in Koramangala. Sumita and her cousins went there to celebrate a birthday for one of them. They asked the DJ, Siddarth Mehrotra, to play a Kannada song. He said he would, but did not.
As per a report by The New Indian Express, Sumati said, “He stopped the music at around 12.30 am. When my cousin asked him why he didn’t play the Kannada song, he behaved rudely with us, told us we shouldn’t come to such places and asked us to leave.”
When her cousins objected to his behaviour, Sumathi alleges that the DJ assaulted them and grabbed one of the cousin’s collars. The pub’s staff stopped the tussle.
Dominic, the manager, apologised for the incident after Kannada activists protested in front of the pub on Sunday. “From now on, we will ensure that DJs play Kannada songs. I sincerely apologise for yesterday’s (Saturday's) incident,” he said.
Based on the complaint of one of the guests, the police booked the DJ for assault, wrongful restraint and criminal intimidation.
Police sources said, “The DJ admitted that he assaulted one of the customers for hurling filthy abuse at him. He also showed us videos of him singing and playing Kannada songs and claimed language had nothing to do with the incident.”
