India, Oct. 20 -- A night out on Bengaluru's Brigade Road turned traumatic for 28-year-old Soumya Nandal after a flaming Sambuca cocktail demonstration at a city pub went wrong. The incident left her with burn injuries and years of physical and emotional distress.

Nearly four years after the incident, the Bengaluru Urban II District Consumer Commission has held the pub responsible for negligence and directed it to pay Rs1 lakh as compensation for medical treatment, mental agony and legal costs, as per a report by Times of India (TOI).

Reportedly, the incident occurred in 2021 on November 20 when Soumya and her friends were at the pub for an evening out. As they waited for their food, the manager persuaded them to try flaming Sambuca sho...