Mangaluru :
Three youthshave been arrested oncharges ofattempting to molest a teenaged girl and vandalising a bar-cum-restaurant here where she was celebrating her birthday along with friends, police said on Monday.
CCTV footage of the incident that happened on Saturday went viral on social media.
The accused, one of whom was known to the 18-year old girl, had tried to molest her in the restaurant and attacked her friends with lethal weapons, police commissioner N ShashiKumar told reporters here on Monday.
Two of the arrested were aged 19 while the other was 18.
The commissioner said the girl, pursuing her PUC, was staying with her grandparents and her parents are away in Canada.
The girl and one of the accused had been in touch through social media and she had later spurned the friendship.
The youth, along with his two friends, had barged into the restaurant and attacked them, the Commissioner said.
