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Flying Cup Restaurant

They said the tea had gone cold due to a 20-min delay, beat him upA 25-year-oldwas assaulted by aand his associates for a delay of 20 minutes in picking up a parcel of tea in Bellandur on Sunday.The victim Jagadeesh sustained a hair-line crack on his spine while he was beaten up with potato crates by the restaurant staff when he went to pick up the tea. A sole breadwinner for his family, Jagadeesh is now worried about being bed-ridden for months as his doctor has advised him not to ride two-wheelers for a while.Jagadeesh works as a food delivery man and earns somewhere between Rs 1,000 and 1,700 a day. He had purchased a new bike with a good mileage for his job recently.On Sunday, around 9.20 am, Jagadeesh got an order on his phone from Zomato that he had to pick up tea parcel from Theat Bellanduru Gate, on Sarjapura Road and deliver it to a customer.“As per the company’s guidelines, we have 45 minutes to collect and deliver the food package,” said Jagadeesh. He said he took a 20-minute stop for breakfast. The hotel staff reprimanded Jagadeesh for coming late and complained that the tea had become cold. “The restaurant staff asked me to wait for another 20 minutes, but I saw that the disposable tea flask was kept on the side,” Jagadeesh told BM. He then told the restaurant staff that it was time for him to leave and went to take the flask, when around three of them beat him up black and blue. They used potato crates to beat him on his back and he fell down. Jagadeesh could not get back up and he called his friend.His friend rushed to the restaurant and took him in an auto-rickshaw to a hospital.