According to sources the bengaluru police on monday arrested seven men for dressing up in white robes, wearing wigs covering their faces and scaring commuters on the road in Sharifnagar near Yeshwanthpur. Meanwhile videos of the pranks they pulled on several homeless residents and commuters went viral soon after the arrest.

Furthermore in one of the videos, two men dressed like ghosts are seen running towards an auto rickshaw in an attempt to scare the driver. The auto rickshaw driver is seen reversing his vehicle and driving away with fear and several other videos of the group trying to scare motorists have also gone viral. Reportedly shaan Nallik (22), Nived (20), Sajeel Mohammed (21), Mohammed Akhyub (20), Saakhib (20), Syed Nabeel (20) and Yousef Ahmed (20) are the arrested accused.



A senior official said “The boys were trying to pull pranks. They are young and wanted to have some fun but scaring people and causing mischief is illegal and since the auto driver filed a complaint, we had to take action”. Moreover the seven accused have been booked under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 504 (insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the indian Penal Code.


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