A video of a woman thrashing a bank manager for allegedly demanding sexual favours for sanctioning a loan in Karnataka’s Davanagere city has gone viral. The police has arrested the man Devayya (42), branch manager at the Devangere branch of DHFL bank.
The woman can be seen thrashing the bank manager publicly. The bank manager allegedly asked the woman for sexual favours in lieu of passing her loan.
In the 50-second long video, the woman can be heard asking the man to come to a nearby womens’ police station while thrashing him with a stick and holding him by his collar.
She can be seen holding the man by his collar and later hitting him with her slipper. The incident took place Monday and it went viral as soon as it was shared on social media. Many people also linked the incident with the #MeToomovement.
#WATCH Woman in Karnataka's Davanagere thrashes a bank manager for allegedly asking sexual favours to approve her loan (15 October) pic.twitter.com/IiiKbiEgZ9
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The 38-year-old woman had applied for a loan of Rs 2 lakh a month ago and Devayya was allegedly not sanctioning it. In her complaint, the woman said the manager made her visit the bank every alternate day.
A police officer said the manager asked her to come to the bank for document verification Monday. When she went there, he asked her to come to his house as it was the last day for verification.
In her complaint, she alleged that the man forced himself on her following which she ran out of the house.
Over the past few days, the #MeToo campaign has gained pace in the country after a series of sexual harassment allegations were made by women against men in power.
Meanwhile, the services of the employee were sacked by the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DFHL) as the company termed the incident as unfortunate.
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