COIMBATORE: A 21-year-old student, native of Salem district, was assaulted by a five-member gang for allegedly gifting a liquor bottle to a girl student at Sundarapuram in Coimbatore.
The victim is a student of a private engineering college at Echanari in Coimbatore. He stayed with his friends in a rental house on Echanari Road. Sundarapuram police registered a case and held an investigation upon receiving his complaint.
The primary investigation revealed that the five students assaulted him for providing liquor to the girl who is a friend of one assailant.
The complainant said that the girl asked him to buy her liquor and he only helped her by buying it from a Tasmac shop. Irked over it, the girl’s boyfriend along with three of his friends attacked the complainant when he was at Sundarapuram area on Tuesday.
Police registered a case under three sections of the Indian Penal Code. The five students were subsequently arrested and sent to judicial custody. Further investigation is under way.