Thirty-year-old Dinesh Subba alleged that he was harassed, called "Chinese", and brutally thrashed by three bike-borne miscreants.
Dinesh Subba, the victim
The Bengaluru City Police are on the lookout for three persons who allegedly confronted a Sikkim-origin man, called him “Chinese”, and thrashed him black and blue in the early hours of Wednesday, 16 August,
The complainant, 30-year-old Dinesh Subba, said this happened while he was walking back home after work in the Doddathoguru locality in the Electronic City area of Southeast Bengaluru.
The police probe into the incident, however, showed that he had made the incident up.
In his complaint to the police, Subba alleged that he was harassed, called “Chinese” and brutally thrashed by three bike-borne miscreants while he was returning home after a party for his marriage anniversary with his friends.
A resident of Rinchenpong in West Sikkim, Subba told the police that he has been working as a waiter at a restaurant in Electronic City over the past six months and lives with his wife and three-month-old baby in Doddathoguru.
He told the cops that after finishing his work around 11.30 pm, he took two of his friends to a nearby bar and partied till around 2 am.
The three of them spent time talking with each other in front of the bar for about one hour, after which Subba started walking back home when three men travelling on a bike approached him, he said.
According to Subba, one of the trio called him “Chinese”, to which he objected and told them that he was an Indian from the northeastern state of Sikkim, but they did not heed it. They bullied him further and sped away, he added.
However, in a couple of minutes, Subba felt a rap on his head from behind, and fell on the road, he said in the complaint, adding that it was the same trio that had assaulted him.
Subba said he then walked to a supermarket named Easy Hypermarket near BMS Tent House in Doddathoguru and fell unconscious.
He was without his shirt when he was awakened by the police. A patrolling police team had arrived at the spot after the nearby security guards called up the police control room number 112 after noticing the shirtless Subba, who was also bleeding from his face.
When the police comforted him and questioned him further, Subba told the cops that he was attacked by three men on a bike who had robbed him of his bag too, but his phone was present with him.
Subba said called his brother-in-law Deepak when he was attacked, but he did not know where he was at that time.
Based on Subba’s complaint, the Electronic City registered an FIR under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 341 (wrongful confinement), 324 and 323 (criminal assault using dangerous weapons), and 504 (intentional insult provoking breach of peace).
However, as the police probed further, they noticed that the “trio on the bike”, whom Subba was accusing of beating him up, did not appear on any CCTV camera footage from the area.
The cops then checked footage from other CCTV cameras in and around the area, and stumbled upon a clip where Subba is seen entering a commercial complex that looked like a juice centre on the ground floor, but was locked.
As there was light on the first floor, Subba was seen climbing the stairs to the first floor when he fell from there, hitting his face on the ground. He was then seen roaming around in the nearby areas without his shirt, possibly in an inebriated condition.
“We have obtained the CCTV footage of Dinesh Subba and will produce it as evidence in court,” a senior police officer told South First.
Police sources told South First that prima facie, it appeared that Dinesh Subba, who was in an inebriated state, wanted to play safe in front of his wife, who was opposed to his drinking habits.
Sources said that Subba, in order to escape the ire of both the police and his wife, cooked up a story about the trio coming on a bike and assaulting him and hurling racial slurs at him.
“However, we go by the complaint from the victim, and are investigating further,” a senior police officer told South First.
Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Southeast Division Chandrashekar K Baba told South First: “We meticulously investigate every aspect of a case. Our initial findings uncovered a more complex reality. While the complainant alleged that the incident involved bike-borne individuals, our investigation revealed that he had consumed alcohol and had a fall.”
He added: “The victim partied with his two friends that night when he had a fall and injured himself.”
He also told South First that he was the designated nodal officer for any kind of crisis pertaining to the members of the Northeast diaspora living in Bengaluru, and that anyone could contact him to report any crisis occurring within the community.
Meanwhile, Subba’s brother-in-law Deepak told South First that he was not a person who drank, but he had consumed alcohol with his friends on that day as it was his marriage anniversary.
Since he was drunk for the first time, he had lost his senses and was clueless as to how to return home, added Deepak.
Subba had taken a lift from a stranger and had come near a supermarket, where he tried to climb up the stairs and fell down, he said.
He had lost his T-shirt by then and was sitting behind the supermarket, bleeding from his nose, when some security guards noticed him and called the police, Deepak told South First.
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