Chennai: After a video capturing a man brutally assaulting a woman amid heavy traffic on Koyambedu flyover of Chennai in Tamil Nadu went viral, Chennai police have launched an investigation and have arrested the man seen in the video. The video appeared on social media on April 27, Saturday. It can be seen in the video, that the lady is fallen on the ground and a man is trying to assault her, drag her to make her get up. A motor-bike is parked at the post. While traffic was proceeding, all this was happening on the bridge. Reports said that one of the passers by recorded the video and also informed the police.
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Chennai police sprung into action and managed to arrest the accused. The police took to X and responded to the viral video saying, "Male in this video is Roshan and the lady is his wife. For assaulting the lady, FIR has been registered, Roshan has been arrested and being investigated."
In response to the post of Chennai police, Netizens lauded the promptness shown by Chennai police in discharging their duty. @Kovai_Karthic said, "thank you Chennai Police". @shmiusa said, "This is great Chennai Police for swift action….all these can be prevented if people can see, not more police around, but police carrying guns, toy or real…however, we see this happening now only for a few individuals with police escort."
According to an India Today report, "when the person filming the video informed the alleged culprit that the police were on their way, he quickly lifted his wife, placed her on the two-wheeler, and fled the scene."
