Karnataka man arrested for assaulting female lawyer in public; video goes viral
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Mahantesh, a man from Karnataka's Bagalkote district was arrested for assaulting Sangeetha, a female lawyer over personal enmity regarding a civil dispute case. An 8-second video of the assault has gone viral on social media.
A man from Bagalkote district in Karnataka was arrested by the police after visuals of him brutally assaulting a female lawyer went viral on social media.
The man, Mahantesh, assaulted Sangeetha, a lady lawyer, and her husband over a land dispute in broad daylight. A video of the gruesome assault has gone viral on Twitter with over 500,000 views.
Based on this, Bagalkote town police have arrested Mahantesh and charged him with assault. Sangeetha and Mahantesh are reportedly neighbours.
#SHOCKING A #woman #lawyer named Sangeetha was brutally assaulted and injured at #Bagalkote #Karnataka. #Worse: many people watched and didn't come forward to help her. Sangeetha and her assaulter Mahantesh are neighbours.And they had differences over some issue pic.twitter.com/D3KhJRc2fU
Despite the video being a mere eight seconds, the visuals are brutal and horrific.