Daijiworld Media Network-Tumakuru (RJP)
Bengaluru, Jan 19: The police in Tumakuru on Wednesday January 18, arrested three persons on the charge of stripping and assaulting a Dalit youth.
Kaduprakash, Maruti and Ramesh are the arrested persons. All of them are residents of Gubbi.
A video circulated through WhatsApp showed a group of people stripping a youth and garlanding him with slippers at an unknown place in Gubbi near here. The video attracted instant criticism and condemnation from people.
The youth told the police that the group targeted him because he was in contact with a high school girl over phone for the past three months. The father of the girl is also one of the prime accused in the case.
Search is on for two more persons involved in the incident, Tumakuru superintendent of police Isha Pant said.