Northeast student was attacked by landlord

Bengaluru, March 14: The Northeast student was brutally beaten a by a landlord in Bengaluru, this not for the first time beating the N-E students, recently a student was beaten by residents of a colony in Bangalore.It is alleged by sections of the media that the aggressors were landlords in the area.

And now again a The brutal attack on a student from Arunachal Pradesh, allegedly by his landlord, has kicked up a storm in the city's northeast (N-E) community.

The landlord, Hemanth Kumar, allegedly attacked Higio Gungtey, a student of Christ University, and even made him lick his shoe. The incident followed a dispute over water. Even though several charges were filed against the landlord, sources said he managed to get anticipatory bail.

Higio lived in a two-bedroom house owned by Kumar, a lawyer, in Hulimavu. On March 6, another tenant living in Kumar's apartment complained that they were facing water scarcity because Higio and his roommates were overusing it. Following this, Kumar allegedly first abused Higio over phone and later turned up at his house and attacked him.



Higio said Kumar kicked him on his stomach and knees and beat him black and blue and that he was assaulted for half-an-hour. When the landlord's shoe fell off, Higio was allegedly asked to put it back and lick it.

The victim's statement details the attack, but makes no mention of a racial abuse or attack, said senior police officers.

But the victim said that the police did not take the full complaint and he is not satisfied by the actions the police have taken.

"They said that there is no need to add the racial abuse part in the complaint and that's why I am going to file a complaint again," Higio said.

Going by the victim's statement, the landlord has been booked on charges of wrongful restraint, assault, kidnapping and criminal intimidation, they said. However, members of the N-E community are demanding that Kumar be booked for the racial attack.

"If at any point a complaint is registered or we find a racial angle to the incident, a separate case can be registered," said a senior police officer.