bandho, hari OM,
Bangalore was witness to some very disgusting incidents over the extended weekend. After the death of matinee idol Dr. Raj Kumar all hell broke loose. Do sad people indulge in street rioting? This was a new revelation to me.
A police constable is bludgeoned to death by marauders (see the link at the end of the post), what for? Was it genuine sadness or political incitement to violence? Poor constable Manjunath, he too would have had dreams. The son of an agriculturist, a BCom graduate, Manjunath also had an LLB degree. What a loss to the nation? There are reports that the political party which lost power recently was responsible for fomenting trouble to score some cheap political points.
Let me tell you what I myself was a witness to: My friend had promised to meet me at the place where I study, i.e. Indian Institute of Science. We fixed the time to be 4.30 P.M.(on 13th Apr, the scheduled day for the funeral of Dr. Rajkumar) Why would sad people attack anyone, the situation is going to be very gloomy, so we thought. I left from home and walked half way, i.e. ISKCON Temple, I called this friend and told him that it would be difficult for me to make it to the institute in absence of any public transport. He agreed to pick me up from there and I was waiting.
It was then that I was witness to one of the most disgusting incidents in my life. A mob was headed in the ISKCON direction from the Govardhan stop (Yeshvantpur metro fly over) side. One person who was heading the mob was brandishing a rod. The mob stopped a motorcycle which was ridden by a couple. I was about 30 ft away and could hear what they were talking. The man on the bike was trying to reason out with the mob of the need for them to leave immediately. It was then that the woman probably out of anxiety, uttered a few words in english(to her husband). One man from the mob started abusing her with the choicest of abuses for not having talked in Kannada, and in his despicable vehemence started man-handling her, (all the time mouthing abuses at her). It was divine providence that about after 2 minutes of the beginning of this horrific incident, the police (about 6-8 of them) arrived on the scene. The same hoodlums who till then were flaunting their bravado on their achievement of attacking and man-handling an innocent woman, just vanished from the scene.
Women have never been attacked even in times of war in this daiva bhUmI. What a tragedy to see the decadence of dharma, where a woman is man-handled on the street by a mob which was supposedly "sad".
The full story of the killing of Manjunath Malladi:
Date:14/04/2006
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/14/stories/2006041423310400.htm
Karnataka - Bangalore
A victim of mindless violence
Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: Lynched by a mob at Siddalingaiya Circle, constable Manjunath Malladi lay there on the road, dead and deserted. Manjunath, who had passed the B.Com examination with distinction, had dreamt to make it big in the police force. But his dreams were extinguished in the mindless violence that engulfed the city.
Wounded and in pain, Manjunath's fellow recruits from the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) sat in gloom at the Bowring Hospital late on Thursday night. Surrounded by an angry and violent mob, they had managed to escape from the KSRP van.
But 25-year-old Manjunath was not so lucky. He was trapped, surrounded and bludgeoned to death.
Narrating the mind-numbing incident to The Hindu , Manjunath's colleague Mahantesh relived the drama. The constables, 25 to 30 of them, had just reached Siddalingaiya Circle when they saw the mob approaching them menacingly. There was no time. They had to escape or be trapped.
Many jumped out of the vehicle through the driver's door. But the mob was too close. Three constables — Mahantesh, Anand and Manjunath — were trapped. Anand took his chance and jumped out, pretended to be unconscious and escaped the crowd's wrath. By this time, the mob had torched the bus, forcing Mahantesh to jump out. He suffered head injuries but managed to flee. That left Manjunath alone.
Mahantesh recalled that the mob surrounded Manjunath, forcibly removed his helmet and rained stones on his head.
Bleeding, the constable died soon after.
A few days, and he would have passed out from the Police Training College, Channapatna, adding to his already impressive qualification that included an LLB degree. But the mob had something else in store for the eldest son of an agriculturist.
Director-General of Police B.S. Sial, City Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh and Additional Director-General of Police, KSRP, A.R. Infant visited the Bowring Hospital mortuary where Manjunath's body was kept and paid their last respects.
© Copyright 2000 - 2006 The Hindu
Bangalore was witness to some very disgusting incidents over the extended weekend. After the death of matinee idol Dr. Raj Kumar all hell broke loose. Do sad people indulge in street rioting? This was a new revelation to me.
A police constable is bludgeoned to death by marauders (see the link at the end of the post), what for? Was it genuine sadness or political incitement to violence? Poor constable Manjunath, he too would have had dreams. The son of an agriculturist, a BCom graduate, Manjunath also had an LLB degree. What a loss to the nation? There are reports that the political party which lost power recently was responsible for fomenting trouble to score some cheap political points.
Let me tell you what I myself was a witness to: My friend had promised to meet me at the place where I study, i.e. Indian Institute of Science. We fixed the time to be 4.30 P.M.(on 13th Apr, the scheduled day for the funeral of Dr. Rajkumar) Why would sad people attack anyone, the situation is going to be very gloomy, so we thought. I left from home and walked half way, i.e. ISKCON Temple, I called this friend and told him that it would be difficult for me to make it to the institute in absence of any public transport. He agreed to pick me up from there and I was waiting.
It was then that I was witness to one of the most disgusting incidents in my life. A mob was headed in the ISKCON direction from the Govardhan stop (Yeshvantpur metro fly over) side. One person who was heading the mob was brandishing a rod. The mob stopped a motorcycle which was ridden by a couple. I was about 30 ft away and could hear what they were talking. The man on the bike was trying to reason out with the mob of the need for them to leave immediately. It was then that the woman probably out of anxiety, uttered a few words in english(to her husband). One man from the mob started abusing her with the choicest of abuses for not having talked in Kannada, and in his despicable vehemence started man-handling her, (all the time mouthing abuses at her). It was divine providence that about after 2 minutes of the beginning of this horrific incident, the police (about 6-8 of them) arrived on the scene. The same hoodlums who till then were flaunting their bravado on their achievement of attacking and man-handling an innocent woman, just vanished from the scene.
Women have never been attacked even in times of war in this daiva bhUmI. What a tragedy to see the decadence of dharma, where a woman is man-handled on the street by a mob which was supposedly "sad".
The full story of the killing of Manjunath Malladi:
Date:14/04/2006
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/14/stories/2006041423310400.htm
Karnataka - Bangalore
A victim of mindless violence
Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: Lynched by a mob at Siddalingaiya Circle, constable Manjunath Malladi lay there on the road, dead and deserted. Manjunath, who had passed the B.Com examination with distinction, had dreamt to make it big in the police force. But his dreams were extinguished in the mindless violence that engulfed the city.
Wounded and in pain, Manjunath's fellow recruits from the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) sat in gloom at the Bowring Hospital late on Thursday night. Surrounded by an angry and violent mob, they had managed to escape from the KSRP van.
But 25-year-old Manjunath was not so lucky. He was trapped, surrounded and bludgeoned to death.
Narrating the mind-numbing incident to The Hindu , Manjunath's colleague Mahantesh relived the drama. The constables, 25 to 30 of them, had just reached Siddalingaiya Circle when they saw the mob approaching them menacingly. There was no time. They had to escape or be trapped.
Many jumped out of the vehicle through the driver's door. But the mob was too close. Three constables — Mahantesh, Anand and Manjunath — were trapped. Anand took his chance and jumped out, pretended to be unconscious and escaped the crowd's wrath. By this time, the mob had torched the bus, forcing Mahantesh to jump out. He suffered head injuries but managed to flee. That left Manjunath alone.
Mahantesh recalled that the mob surrounded Manjunath, forcibly removed his helmet and rained stones on his head.
Bleeding, the constable died soon after.
A few days, and he would have passed out from the Police Training College, Channapatna, adding to his already impressive qualification that included an LLB degree. But the mob had something else in store for the eldest son of an agriculturist.
Director-General of Police B.S. Sial, City Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh and Additional Director-General of Police, KSRP, A.R. Infant visited the Bowring Hospital mortuary where Manjunath's body was kept and paid their last respects.
© Copyright 2000 - 2006 The Hindu
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