"Riding With A Non-Muslim?": 2 Arrested In Bengaluru For Moral Policing

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai applauded the police for nabbing the accused without delay.

Two persons have been arrested in Bengaluru in a case of moral policing after a video showed them assaulting a bank employee for having a Muslim woman colleague ride pillion on his motorcycle.

The arrests were made on Saturday over the incident that took place in the Dairy Circle area of the city on Friday. The video of the incident, reportedly shot by the assaulters themselves, was shared widely on social media and messaging platforms with a watermark of "National Defence Force" written in Kannada.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai applauded the police for nabbing the accused without delay.The video of Friday's attack shows two persons stopping the man and his woman colleague and questioning the reason they were travelling together. Speaking in Kannada and Urdu, they asked the woman, in Muslim attire, why she was travelling with a non-Muslim.

They abuse and threaten the duo, employees of a private bank, even as the woman tries to explain. Prefaced with expletives, one of the assaulters menacingly says in Kannada, "If you ever take another woman in a burkha..." before striking the man on the helmet he is wearing.