Swiggy delivery boys, hotel staff secure bail

Team Udayavani, Jan 16, 2019, 9:14 AM IST

Bengaluru: As many as Twenty-four Swiggy delivery boys who were booked for vandalising a restaurant in southern Bengaluru and Seven employees of the restaurant, who allegedly assaulted the delivery boys got bail.

A fight broke out between two groups over a trivial issue on Saturday, January 12 night on Bannerghatta Road. The fight was between the employee of an Empire Hotel outlet situated on Bannerghatta Road and a Swiggy delivery boy. The fight got intense when the hotel staff ganged up and attacked the Swiggy delivery boy. The delivery boys of the same food delivery app, who were present there, came to his aid and retaliated and also pelted stones at the hotel glass windows.

The hotel management immediately alerted the police. The police rushed to the spot and detained 20 people, including the hotel staff informed sources.

The officer said separate FIRs had been registered at the jurisdictional Mico Layout police station over the vandalism of the restaurant property and the assault on the delivery boys.