Beware : No one is there to help you if u meet with an accident

Young man knocked down by bus remains unattended till cameras start rolling.
This particular incident happened in Howrah, West Bengal. By reading this news, i simply cant believe if humanity is still existing in our country.
From now on better take care of yourself and your family since there might be a situation where u meet with a accident and no one will even look at you.
Read On..

The busy Howrah is often referred as a `city with a heart'. But on Monday it proved itself heartless when busy commuters just walked past a howling and screaming 30-year-old Vishal Shukla who was knocked down and had his waist smashed by a private bus. He was on the road with serious injuries to his face, pelvis, arms and legs. Unable to move, he begged for help from passersby and shopkeepers but no one in the crowded area paused for a moment. Local reports said thousands of people, including policemen, passed by him.

He kept yelling and screaming for help for almost 20 hours in one of the busiest intersections in Howrah between Sunday night and Monday evening. A busy and mindless Howrah just walked past him.

Luckily for him, a bus conductor pulled him away from the road late in the night and put him on a pavement lest he be run over by another speeding vehicle.

This is not the first time that Howrah has had its heart missing. Last year, two persons bled to death while police squabbled over jurisdiction.

According to the local media, Shukla is an educated youth from Siwan in Bihar and had arrived at Howrah station on Sunday evening in search of work. He was knocked down as he was going in search of a hotel.

Amit Kumar, the bus conductor who pulled Shukla to the pavement was quoted in the local media as saying that he asked an on-duty constable to help him take the injured man to a hospital. "He wouldn't listen. We were scared of doing it ourselves because police would have been after us," Kumar said.

A frustrated Kumar and his friends then left some biscuits and water for Shukla and went away. The Bihar boy continued to bleed and suffer excruciating pain through the night, and all of next morning. On Monday too nobody came to his help even as he continued to beg that he be taken to a hospital.

A number of police patrols passed the area but they had no time for a man in agony.

Finally at around 4 pm, journalists were tipped off and when the incident got a coverage on local channels, locals and police had a sudden change in heart and rushed in wanting to be caught on cameras. Shukla had to undergo another bout of pain as no stretcher was brought. He was bodily lifted, his smashed legs dangling, He was later admitted to Howrah district hospital where doctors said his injuries are severe in nature.

Additional SP (town) Sukesh Jain defended his men, the local media said, claiming that the department was not aware of the accident till Monday evening though Howrah police station is hardly a kilometre from the spot.

Source: news.in.msn.com, 27/10/2009