Bengaluru: Engineering students arrested for vandalizing cars

Bengaluru: The police arrested five engineering students for allegedly vandalizing 14 cars in Rajarajeshwari Nagar and Kengeri.

The accused are from North India, they are seventh-semester students of computer science at a private engineering college here.

Rhe students had gone on the rampage in an inebriated state after attending a birthday party and vandalised six cars at Krishna Garden in Rajarajeshwari Nagar police limits and eight cars in Nanjappa Block in Kengeri police limits.

“They were arrested based on the CCTV footage and other clues. They had attended a birthday party at an apartment complex in Kengeri and had come out around 2 am to buy soft drinks from a store attached to a 24X7 petrol pump. While returning, they hit the windshields of the cars with a cricket bat they were carrying. While three are staying at an apartment in Kengeri, two are at the college hostel,” the police said.

The police have also seized two motorbikes and the cricket bat from the accused.