At 2 am on February 25, Nikhil*, 22, hailed an auto at Bengaluru’s HSR Layout. The IT employee had been drinking with friends and was on his way home when two patrol police personnel stopped his auto at Somasundarapalya.
“After noticing that I was inebriated, they checked my bag and took me away from the auto before asking for my phone,” Nikhil said, adding that he felt helpless as he doesn’t speak Kannada and the patrol police were conversing only in Kannada.
