Mysuru: A complaint has been lodged with K.R. Police by a shopkeeper who was assaulted by a minor boy for asking him not to tease girls.

The shopkeeper, who was assaulted has been identified as Shyam, who owns a garments shop atop Chamundi Hill.

On Nov. 18, the boy was purchasing clothes at the shop and was also teasing girls who had come from Kerala besides behaving indecently with them.

Shyam, who saw this, asked the boy not to tease the girls and also advised him. Irked by this, the boy all of a sudden assaulted him.