New Year's Eve Sexual Assault In India: 6 Arrested In Bangalore Incident

Bangalore Police arrested six suspects following the release of video footage that sparked outrage amid allegations of a “mass molestation” in the city New Year’s Eve.

The video, submitted by a Times of India reader, shows a woman walking down the street when two men on a motorcycle stop on the side of the road. They try to wrestle the woman before eventually throwing her to the ground and driving away.

The assault happened at the same time as an alleged mass molestation. Indian media reported multiple women were sexually harassed or molested in the city’s center when crowds gathered to celebrate the holiday.

“As promised we have found credible evidence, repeat credible, evidence in a case of wrongful confinement, molestation and attempt to rob,” Police Commissioner Praveen Sood tweeted the same day that the video was released to the public.

A rape case in New Dehli came to a head in December after police announced they arrested four men accused of drugging and raping a U.S. tourist April 9. One of those four suspects was denied bail after Delhi’s Patiala House Court dismissed the request Wednesday.

The unidentified woman, in her early 30s, alleged her tour guide and three other men raped her in her hotel room.

The alleged mass molestation in Bengalore was not the only reported series of sexual assaults during the holiday. In Austria, senior police official Ernst Kranebitter said officers are attempting to identify a group of as many as 10 men who reportedly groped around 18 women on New Year’s Eve in Innsbruck.

"We've not had anything like this happen here before," Kranebitter said. "They were dancing around the victims and then suddenly grabbed their breast or stuck their hands between their legs.

“That's what made it hard for others to notice what was going on,” he added. “It all happened amid festivities."