| Pramesh Jain |
A group of seven person has been arrested in Bengaluru by Yeshwanthpur police for their pranks,which the residents alleged could have turned dangerous in night time. Donning white gowns,wigs and red paint resembling blood,the members of the group had dressed like “ghosts”and went around scaring people on the intervening night of Sunday Monday in Sharieffnagar area of Yeshwanthpur,police said.
The Yeshwanthpur police rushed to the spot and caught,Shaan Malik,20,Naveed, 20,Saji Mohammed,21,Sakib,20,Syed Nabil,20,Yusif Ahmed,20,all residents of RT Nagar and Mohammed Ayub,20,a resident of Nagawara,and brought them to the police station. The
accused are students of city colleges. The police said the accused made prank videos and uploaded them on social media for attraction. As per the plan,one of the accused,wearing a long white kurta and a wig and splashing red paint on his shirt to make it look like blood,started confronting motorists,pedestrians and people sleeping on pavements,and created panic for some time. The police said the pranks had turned into a menace as many residents in north Bengaluru were scared.
Videos on YouTube”:
Investigation revealed that they would upload these videos on YouTube under the title ‘Ghost Prank in Bengaluru’. They tried to scare people the same way early on Monday when they were caught.
DCP,North,N Shashikumar told reporters,last night around 2.30 am, we received a complaint from the Yeshwanthpur area Sharieffnagar residents saying a group of people were pranking the pedestrians and troubling them in the region. Based on complaint,Yeshwanthpur inspector and his crime staff rushed to the spot and detained all the seven and we have arrested seven of them.After all the legal procedures.He even said that even though they were only pranking the people,but the way they portrayed themselves as ghosts in the middle of the night was dangerous.What if they had tried to stop a two-wheeler that was moving on high speed? There could have been an accident,DCP said.
We questioned them to ascertain the motive and later summoned their parents to the station.The accused were made to give an undertaking and let off on bail after a stern warning.The accused had even tried to scare the police personnel in mufti without realising that they had come to secure their custody,Mr.Shashi Kumar said.
