Meerut (Uttar Pradesh): A 23-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly slapping pedestrians just to experience dopamine rush. Acccording to police, the man was a jobless graduate and was suffering from depression following his father’s death and mother’s remarriage. He allegedly slapped a retired PCS officer and a woman. The man identified as Kapil Kumar had been on a slapping spree for the past 5-6 months, as per complaints received by police. Meanwhile, a video of the man slapping a pedestrian has also surfaced, which led to his arrest on Sunday evening. The Meerut police stated that Kumar has been arrested under BNS section 115 (voluntarily causing hurt) and has been identified in at least three of the slapping incidents. The accused reportedly lost his father around five years ago and his mother remarried months later. He currently resides with his mom and stepdad at Suraj Kund in Meerut. During questioning, Kumar confessed that he has been slapping people randomly while riding a scooter for dopamine rush and also encountered suicidal thoughts. He added that he was jobless, and nothing good was happening to him when he was at home and he was ‘not disturbing anyone’. So, one day, he thought that perhaps ‘something good might happen by doing a few bad things.’ With this thought, he started slapping strangers on the road. A few days ago, CCTV footage surfaced online, in which a man could be seen strolling when a youth on a two-wheeler passing by slaps him. The man was identified as a retired PCS officer. Later, a woman, who claimed to be a close kin of a local politician, filed a police complaint against an “unidentified man” for slapping her too.
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