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Karnataka Youth Congress general secretary Mohammed Nalapad, who is the son of Congress MLA NA Haris, allegedly attacked a youth along with his friends after an argument at a pub in UB City Mall on Saturday night.   Karnataka Youth Congress general secretary Mohammed Nalapad, who is accused of assaulting a man in a Bengaluru pub, surrendered before police on Monday. Son of Congress MLA NA Haris, 30-year-old Nalapad allegedly attacked a youth along with his friends at a pub in UB City Mall on Saturday night. With the elections just around the corner, the Congress took moved swiftly and removed Nalapad from the party for six years. The victim, Vidwat, 28, who was injured in the brawl, is undergoing treatment at Mallya Hospital. Nalapad and his friends are also accused of visting the victim in the hospital and threatening him and his friends against lodging a police complaint. An FIR was later registered against Nalapad and ten others in connection with the assault. In ...

The incident has deeply embarrassed the ruling Congress just months ahead of elections in Karnataka. The party has suspended Nalapad, who is a youth leader.     NA Haris, the Congress lawmaker in Karnataka accused of trying to protect his son from arrest for assaulting a young man at a cafe in Bengaluru, put out a public apology today and said: "Children make mistakes...we cannot disown or abandon them." Mr Haris' son   Mohammad Nalapad, 24, was arrested on Monday   after he surrendered along with six more accused.  He has been charged with attempt to murder among charges. Last week, Nalapad allegedly walked up to a man who was having dinner at a cafe in the upscale UB City mall, with his bandaged foot on a table. Nalapad allegedly asked him to remove it and "sit properly". When Vidwath refused, he was attacked by the group and beaten so severely that his eyes were swollen shut and his clothes were blood-soaked. He is in the ICU. The incident has deeply ...

If potholes in Bengaluru won't kill you, a politician's son will. That's the takeaway from the ghastly incident that took place at Farzi Café at UB Mall on Saturday, in which Congress MLA from Shanti Nagar constituency in central Bengaluru, NA Haris' son Mohammed Haris Nalapad and his gang of goons assaulted Vidwath. They, however, did not stop with the vulgar display of muscle power at the café. They even landed up at the hospital where Vidwath was admitted, to threaten him again. The injuries on the 24-year-old were so severe that it is a miracle he is still alive. The video of a badly injured Vidwath will leave you upset, disturbed and angry. And it is important for voters of Shanti Nagar, the rest of Bengaluru, and Karnataka, to retain that anger when they go to vote to elect their new MLAs a couple of months from now. For, this episode is a testimony to the arrogance of power, the   tu jaanta nahin mera baap kaun hai   syndrome that so far the civil Bengaluru t...

  BENGALURU: Mohammad Nalapad, the son of Congress MLA N.A. Harris, surrendered to police on Monday afternoon, surfacing at Cubbon Park police station, 36 hours after he and his goons thrashed 24 year old Vidwath within an inch of his life at an upscale restaurant pub in the IT capital's tony UB City late on Saturday, and then went missing without a trace. But Mohammad Nalapad apparently did not leave it there. Vidwath's elder brother Satvik told Deccan Chronicle that not only did Nalapad, 30, and his coterie force their way into the hospital and beat him up, they had chased after Vidwath when he was being carried out of the restaurant at UB City by his friend Pravin.   “As his friend was taking him out of the café, they followed him and Nalapad asked him to kiss his feet and say sorry, which my brother refused to do and so they hit him again,” Satvik recounted. Not one of the ten bouncers hired by the restaurants or pubs to guard the plush premises lifted...

  An embarrassed Congress was forced to expel MLA NA Harris' son Mohammad Nalapad An FIR has been registered against Bengaluru District Youth Congress General Secretary Mohammed Haris Nalapad and ten others for allegedly beating up a person in a restaurant in Bengaluru's UB City. Allegedly, the accused has threatened the victim Vidwath, at Mallya hospital where he later went for treatment. Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took to Twitter and said, " Offenders should be punished to the full extent of law regardless of who they are. No less, no more @CPBlr will take action as per law and bring the guilty to book.Offenders should be punished to the full extent of law regardless of who they are. No less, no more.@CPBlr will take action as per law and bring the guilty to book. An embarrassed Congress was forced to expel MLA NA Harris’ son Mohammad Nalapad on Sunday following a News18 report on an attack. The victim, identified as Dollars Colony re...