Pineapple or mosambi? Man assaults juice vendor over wife’s miscarriage | Bengaluru News
Bengaluru: A routine day turned into a nightmare for a fruit juice vendor in Bommanahalli when two men allegedly abused, assaulted, and illegally confined him, claiming he had served the wrong juice to a pregnant woman, which they said caused her miscarriage.The vendor, Aakash, a Bommanahalli resident originally from Bihar, operates a small fruit juice stall on a pushcart near a govt hospital in Roopena Agrahara. In his complaint to Bommanahalli police, Aakash explained that a woman had regularly visited his stall over the previous few days to order mosambi (sweet lime) juice.On Dec 27, around 3pm, an unidentified man approached him and shouted. When Aakash questioned him, the man assaulted him and accused him of serving pineapple juice to his wife, claiming this had led to her miscarriage. Despite Aakash’s insistence that he only served what customers ordered, the man forced him to accompany him to a nearby house close to the Ganesha temple, where the woman was present.Aakash reiterated that the woman had consistently ordered mosambi juice, but the situation escalated. Allegedly, the woman’s husband, along with another unidentified man, forcibly confined him in a room, verbally abused him in both Kannada and Hindi, physically assaulted him again, and threatened to kill him. He was finally released around 5:30pm, sought treatment at a nearby hospital, and filed a police complaint that same day.A case has been registered under BNS sections 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 127 (wrongful confinement), 351 (criminal intimidation), and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace). Police efforts are on to nab the accused.
