
12/06/2023
Pedro Mota, a Dutch citizen, and YouTuber was documenting a vlog in the streets of Bengaluru's Chickpet area.
Pedro was manhandled by a trader, probably a shopkeeper, who aggressively pulled the youtuber's hand while he was trying to record a video in the city's busy market.
Video of this uncalled for incident with the YouTuber has gone viral on social media, receiving wide criticism.
Pedro, who has two YouTube channels with a total of nearly 1 lakh subscribers shared the video titles "Attacked At The Thieves Market in India" on his channel Madly Rober, sharing the video of the attack and his experience.
After the video went viral today, Bengaluru police arrested the accused, named Navab Hayath Sharif for harassing the vlogger.
B. Dayananda Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru City, while speaking to the media said, "It's an old video which has come into circulation now. The person harassing in the video has been identified, traced, and action has been taken. No scope for such highhandedness in Naamma Bengaluru against anybody."
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