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Kumaraswamy's son hurt in a brawl

Staff Reporter

`I will not interfere with investigation'

BANGALORE: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Gowda, 19, and two friends were injured in a brawl at a restaurant on Church Street here in the early hours of Thursday.

The windowpanes of the restaurant were broken and a chicken roaster and other equipment were damaged in the melee, the police said.

Mr. Nikhil and two friends arrived in a car at Hotel Empire around 4.30 a.m. and asked the hotel staff to serve them food. When the employees told them that it was too late and the kitchen was closed, there was an argument between them and the staff, the police said.

According to a complaint lodged by Mr. Nikhil with the Cubbon Park police, the hotel staff assaulted him and his friends Syed, 22, and Manjunath, 23. His car was damaged in the incident, the complaint said.

After the brawl, the three came to the Cubbon Park police station and Mr. Nikhil lodged a complaint. The policemen took the three to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, the police said.

The general manager of the hotel, K. Junaij, has lodged a complaint with the police that around 4.30 a.m. three youths came to the hotel. When the staff told them that the food was exhausted, the three assaulted four employees, injuring them. They smashed the windowpanes and ransacked the hotel, Mr. Junaij has said.

The Cubbon Park police have registered separate cases on the two complaints. According to the hospital authorities, Mr. Nikhil had "abrasions on his palm, wrist, face and elbow and contusion on the left shoulder." Asked how the police had allowed the restaurant to remain open till 4.30 a.m., jurisdictional Deputy Commissioner of Police G.B. Chebbi said the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's Health Department had permitted the restaurant to operate till 3 a.m.

Kumaraswamy shocked

The Chief Minister has expressed shock over reports of his son being involved in a brawl. Mr. Kumaraswamy, who is away in Mandya district, said: "The law will take its course and I will not interfere in it anyway."

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