Police in Zhongmu county, Central China's Henan Province is investigating the assault case of a man forcibly dragging a woman into the toilet of a bar, tearing the woman's coat off in the process, Shangyou News reported on Wednesday.
The police has arrested the man for further proceedings.
The police announced on Wednesday that they received an emergency call at 11:59 pm on Saturday. The 27-year-old man, surnamed Li from Kaifeng city, is suspected of criminal crime, according to the announcement.
The incident has trended on China's social media. A surveillance video clip that circulated online showed a young woman running out of a toilet stall after breaking away from a man at about 11:40 pm on Saturday. A man in white followed, yanked off the woman's coat and dragged her back by the ponytail into the stall. At that moment, in the video a woman dressed in black comes out from another stall and is seen trying to help the woman together with other two people.
Whether the two are lovers is a fact still under investigation, and how the man's act of violence will be classified is being decided by the legal department of the local public security bureau, according to the local official in the county.
The incident took place at the Max Club bar in Zhongmu county, Shangyou News said citing the above-mentioned official. After the incident, the police received an emergency call and immediately rushed to the scene, taking into custody the man and the woman involved, the media report said.
