Manipuri student attacked in Bangalore
The group of men, who have been arrested, reportedly attacked him as they wanted the engineering student from the northeastern state to speak in "Kannada language".
The victim, Michael Lamjathang Haokip told NDTV: "They said you are eating Karnataka food, living in Karnataka. If you don't speak Kannada please get out. We ignored them, but they took it as an insult. They picked up stones and attacked us and I got injured."
He said he does not want to 'exaggerate' as he feels 'safe' in the city.
"I don't want to exaggerate anything. I feel safe, no problem. But I would like to appeal to people in general. Whenever such incidents happen, instead of moving away from the incident they have to be involved and settle the incident," he said.
The police have arrested all the three attackers, media reports said.
"We have taken it very seriously, though it is a stray incident - but this being a sensitive issue, we have taken it very seriously. We will take stringent action even if it is a minor assault or abuse or any type of verbal altercations we are going to take serious action against such people. Reassurance, that we are here to protect them," senior police officer Alok Kumar told NDTV.
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