Bengaluru, April 28 -- Three people have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a professor who confronted them about throwing garbage from an auto-rickshaw, police said.

Kumara Swamy Layout police inspector N Jagadish said that the accused were sitting in their auto-rickshaw and carelessly throwing trash, including glass bottles, onto the road on April 21 in the JHBICS Layout area of Kumaraswamy Layout.

"Professor Aravindo Gupta, a faculty member at Dayananda Sagar College, saw the three accused littering the road. Concerned about the potential dangers to other vehicles skidding on the debris, he politely informed the accused, 'Please don't throw garbage like this; it can cause accidents'," he said. The accused were identified as Bhanu...