Shanthinagar MLA

Telugu Vignana Samithi

Chowdaiah Memorial Hall

KPCC president

Siddaramaiah

Mohammad Nalapad Haris, the son ofNA Harris is back in action, yet again. This time, he has assaulted a fellow youth Congress member. Vyalikaval police have filed an FIR against Nalapad based on a complaint by Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (KPYCC) member Sachin Gowda, a resident of Padmanabha Nagar.The incident happened at thenearwhere the KPYCC had organised a State-level debate competition.Sachin too was one of the competitors representing his home district Ramanagara.In the compalint, Sachin alleged that Nalpad assaulted and threatened him with dire consequences without any reason. His gunman too hurled abuses at him and punched him several times, he said.It all began when Sachin was questioning KPYCC vice president Shivakumar why Gautam, also a youth Congress secretary and son of MLA Narayan Rao from Basavakalyan in Bidar, was made to sit among the audience.Shivakumar spoke to Sachin in a disrespectful manner and asked him to mind his own business after which the two exchanged heated arguments.Meanwhile, KPYCC president Basavanagouda Badarli intervened, pacified and calmed Sachin and requested him to keep quiet. Sachin in turn asked Badarli to advise Shivakumar not to speak to him in a disrespectful tone.Nalapad, who is the Bengaluru Youth Congress president, walked towards Sachin and began to assault him, the complaint states.Based on Sachin’s complaint, the police filed an FIR making Nalpad as accused number one while his gunman is made accused number two. Youth Congress functionaries Shivakumar and Manju have been made as accused number three and four.“We have taken up a case of assault, wrongful restraint, and criminal intimidation based on a complaint filed by complainant Sachin Gowda and based on a counter complaint by Nalapad, we have taken up an NCR,” said DCP Central, Chetan Singh Rathore.In his counter-complaint, Nalpad had alleged that Sachin threatened to dent his image through adverse media coverage.The police have booked Nalapad and three others under IPC sections 341 - wrongful restraint, 323 - assault, 506 - criminal intimidation and 504 - intentional insult to provoke breach of peace. “The gunman who was devoid of gun is yet to be identified and his bodyguard has been addressed in common parlance as a gunman,” said an investigating officer. Nalpad too gave a counter complaint against Sachin Gowda, based on which, the police took up an Non-Cognisable Report (NCR).Meanwhile sources said that newly appointedDK Shivakumar tried to pacify the two groups not to go to the police. He, however, couldn’t do much as Sachin and Nalpad were adamant.Leader of Oppositiontoo came to know about the incident and tried to stop it from further precipitating but failed.