Kolkata: A building promoter, Pranatosh Saha, was arrested in the Purba Putiary area of south Kolkata for allegedly assaulting two teenagers, who entered an under-construction building to retrieve a cricket ball, in an inebriated state. The victims sustained minor injuries and were treated at a local clinic.
The parents of one of the teenagers filed a complaint with the Regent Park police station. The promoter claimed that the teens were thieves and started charging at them with a bamboo stick. The teens, however, pleaded before him stating that they lived in the same neighbourhood and were there only to fetch the ball
"One of the teenagers had a close shave from a head injury as he ducked and jumped from a first-floor window onto a pile of sand to escape the assault," said the aunt of one of the teenagers. Two weeks back neighbours came to blows over children playing cricket on the first floor of a building in Jorasanko. A child was allegedly assaulted there.