A shocking incident was reported from India’s Pune city where a caterer was brutally thrashed by a group of people at a wedding ceremony following a dispute over gulab jamuns (a sweet dish).
According to the Indian media reports, the incident took place after the ceremony was over at a banquet hall where a 28-year-old catering contractor was seriously injured after he was thrashed with a frying ladle.
In a police report the manager of the hotel and catering service, Dipanshu Gupta, stated that the incident took place around 6 pm, after some relatives who were at the wedding approached Gupta and asked if they could take the leftover food. Gupta told them he had no objection and they started packing the food.
He further stated that one person packing the gulab jamuns which was kept separately for the next day event, and upon raising objection the culprits got agitated and attacked him with a frying ladle.
The hotel employer and other staffers intervened the fight and rushed Gupta to the hospital as the caterer was bleeding profusely.
The police said that after attacking Gupta, four of the suspects fled from the scene, while a search has been launched to arrest them.
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