It is half Past two in the afternoon and it is the Famous M G Road of Bangaluru. The business is as usual and the market is not so crowded as most of the citizens of the city are either in their sophisticated office rooms or at home, with a handful of tourists and an equal number of street vendors, trying to sell their paraphernalia around the environment of the place is more than cool, as it would aptly be said in the new age lingo.
Not far from me is standing a youngman in his early twenties and frantically trying to ask some people with a paper in hand. May be he is lost or is left behind by his group of friends and so he may have been there for sometime asking for some address and it happened too. When I went near him, he approached me too and I obliged with a smile telling I am a tourist too.
After I left that lamp post where that guy was standing a few steps ahead I heard a shrill cry and when I returned back I saw there were two guys of the same age giving good blows to the guy while two other girls are standing still. Before I could understand what has happened and go back to his help more people jumped in and in no time this guy was mobbed by a crowd of about twenty some youth from no where. He was crying for help. Security guards of different shopping centers and police man on duty in the same yard remained silent watchers. When I approached one policeman, he faigned ignorance and when I said, the thing is happening in front of him only, he said, "Don't get into these matters, you are a tourist, go and enjoy your time around."
After about half an hour and the guy being badly and brutally beaten, with his dress torn into pieces and left with some bones broken the crowd was pushed back by one police vehicle. The guy was rescued and was forwarded to the nearest clinic and there the police took his verdict, Surprisingly though he said he is from Bangaluru only and it so happened that, because he was ignorant of the streets and lanes he was asking for the route to go to his place and in this he asked the same thing to the girls and the guys, probably their friends jumped in saying that he harrashed their girlfriends, and started beating him and other too joined them.
Ironically, there was nothing so bad about it, except that the guy was beaten like anything, and the guy is but a sample, it can be anyone, you, me or someone from our family. Can you slap your brother, sister? How can you be so inhuman and beat up a person who simply asked you for an address???
This is not a solitary incidence, there are thousands of such incidences that occur every day in India, and the repeatation of such an incidence occured in Bhagalpur in Bihar, yesterday, when an irritated mob ransacked the existence of a man by beating him brutally and then giving him inhuman torture by not only slapping or kicking, but by beating with leather belts and then tying him behind the bike of a police officer, who did not hesitate to drag him to the police station?
Are we listening? Are we human? Ask your self.
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Dr Jyoti Prasad Pattnaik, MBBS, DMCH
Editor "Aahwaan"
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Not far from me is standing a youngman in his early twenties and frantically trying to ask some people with a paper in hand. May be he is lost or is left behind by his group of friends and so he may have been there for sometime asking for some address and it happened too. When I went near him, he approached me too and I obliged with a smile telling I am a tourist too.
After I left that lamp post where that guy was standing a few steps ahead I heard a shrill cry and when I returned back I saw there were two guys of the same age giving good blows to the guy while two other girls are standing still. Before I could understand what has happened and go back to his help more people jumped in and in no time this guy was mobbed by a crowd of about twenty some youth from no where. He was crying for help. Security guards of different shopping centers and police man on duty in the same yard remained silent watchers. When I approached one policeman, he faigned ignorance and when I said, the thing is happening in front of him only, he said, "Don't get into these matters, you are a tourist, go and enjoy your time around."
After about half an hour and the guy being badly and brutally beaten, with his dress torn into pieces and left with some bones broken the crowd was pushed back by one police vehicle. The guy was rescued and was forwarded to the nearest clinic and there the police took his verdict, Surprisingly though he said he is from Bangaluru only and it so happened that, because he was ignorant of the streets and lanes he was asking for the route to go to his place and in this he asked the same thing to the girls and the guys, probably their friends jumped in saying that he harrashed their girlfriends, and started beating him and other too joined them.
Ironically, there was nothing so bad about it, except that the guy was beaten like anything, and the guy is but a sample, it can be anyone, you, me or someone from our family. Can you slap your brother, sister? How can you be so inhuman and beat up a person who simply asked you for an address???
This is not a solitary incidence, there are thousands of such incidences that occur every day in India, and the repeatation of such an incidence occured in Bhagalpur in Bihar, yesterday, when an irritated mob ransacked the existence of a man by beating him brutally and then giving him inhuman torture by not only slapping or kicking, but by beating with leather belts and then tying him behind the bike of a police officer, who did not hesitate to drag him to the police station?
Are we listening? Are we human? Ask your self.
The complete story and visuals in still pictures and videos can be seen here.
Dr Jyoti Prasad Pattnaik, MBBS, DMCH
Editor "Aahwaan"
Visit Aahwaan now
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