Youth assaulted for texting girl

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: In yet another incident, a youth was assaulted by two men for allegedly texting a girl using a fake Instagram account.

The incident reportedly took place in Govindaraj Nagar Police Station limits. The CCTV footage of the incident has been retrieved by the police. Siddharth, a resident of Govindaraj Nagar, had reportedly been texting a girl for over a year pretending to be a girl on Instagram.

On noticing weird messages from him recently, the girl figured out that the messages were coming from a boy. She informed this to her brother, Chetan, who texted Siddharth and asked him to meet 'her' near a PG. As Siddharth ap - proached the spot, Chetan and his friend assaulted him with a knife and fled the spot, police said.

Siddharth is said to have suffered cut injuries on his hands and legs. He is being treated at a hospital. Meanwhile, a case has been taken up by the jurisdictional police who are scanning the CCTV footage to nab the miscreants.