Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
HE thought the young woman sleeping on a bus was an easy target for harassment but ended up getting beaten by her, Makkal Osai reported.
The female passenger, who was fast asleep while travelling on a bus in India’s Karnataka state, was abruptly awakened when the stranger sitting next to her began molesting her.
She immediately filmed the man, berating him as he tried to get away by alighting from the bus.
However, the woman followed him and beat him with her bare hands.
She later uploaded the videos of the incident which went viral. Local police soon pursued the case and identified the culprit as a 28-year-old local man.
> The Johor Tamilar Sangam is leading efforts to build a monument to the late writer Thamizhavel G. Sarangapani in the state capital, Makkal Osai reported.
A committee is now working to raise about RM20,000 for the project.
The writer was a social activist who opposed the caste system and campaigned against alcoholism.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
