Bengaluru, April 18
The Bengaluru Police arrested an auto-rickshaw driver on Friday for harassing a woman at a public place, demanding her contact number and pestering her to allow him to take a selfie with him.
The incident took place in the Pulakeshinagar police station limits. The arrested person was identified as Mani.
According to police, the woman was standing with her male friend near a shop when the accused auto-rickshaw driver approached her and asked her to share her contact number with him.
The accused also demanded that she allow him to take a selfie with her. The woman later told the police that the accused even attempted to take a selfie.
She later lodged a complaint with the police demanding action against him.
The victim has claimed that she does not know the accused and that he was a stranger. The police were investigating the case.
In another incident, Bengaluru Police have arrested the youth who flashed his private parts at a homemaker, and when confronted, assaulted seven people, including her husband, police said on Friday.