Yemeni student beaten up

Updated on: 20 July,2010 08:01 AM IST |
Manjunath L Hanji |

Alleges auto drivers thrashed him following an accident

Alleges auto drivers thrashed him following an accident

In a latest assault on foreigners in the city, a 22-year-old Yemeni youth and his Arab friends studying here were beaten up last night. In the altercation, his nose cartilage was broken.

The youth Rami has been in the city from the past two years, doing an engineering course from Christ College.

The auto's driver asked money for repairs, but the trio refused, and instead, beat the driver, who alleges that they were drunk. The driver came back with his friends, and a verbal fight ensued.

Rami and his friends allegedly started abusing in their language, which angered the gathered drivers. One of the drivers hit Rami on the nose with a steel bar.

Sensing that things could go worse, the other two ran to the Cubbon Park police for help, and they complied.

The auto driver whose rickshaw was damaged has filed a complaint with the police.

When this reporter followed Rami to the hospital, it was a different scene.

When he entered the X-ray room, the doctors asked him to wait for a while, but he got angry, and stormed out of the hospital, hurling abuses at the doctors. But the police managed to convince him. He finally agreed to an X-ray.

Hanumantappa, ASI, Cubbon Park police station, said, "We reached early, otherwise it could have been worse. We don't know if the student was drunk at the time of the incident. An investigation is on."

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