Fight for the right to beg

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Indiranagar police have taken up a case against two transgenders for allegedly attacking a disabled beggar and his mother.

According to the complaint filed by the beggar he was attacked by the transgenders over the right to beg near a metro station in Indiranagar. The disabled beggar was identified as Venkatappa, 26, a resident of Baiyappanahalli, who recently started begging for alms near the junctions of the city.

Venkatappa in his complaint alleged that around 1 pm on Tuesday, he and his mother were at a junction near Swami Vivekananda Road metro station when the two transgenders approached them and objected to their begging at the spot.

However, as Venkatappa and his mother tried to reason, the transgenders allegedly assaulted them. Based on a complaint, the jurisdictional police have booked the two transgenders for assault and criminal intimidation, and wrongful restraint.