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.
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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

Minister Ho To Aisa

We elect ministers hoping for a better governance, hoping for a better tomorrow. When we have such ministers existing, what else we can expect from our government.
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The official car of minister of state in the Uttar Pradesh government, Nand Gopal Nandi, knocked down a school boy and left two others injured before it rammed into a shop on the roadside in Rae Bareli district on Wednesday morning. Surprisingly, instead of arranging for immediate medical attention for the injured, the minister who was in the car when the accident took place, preferred to flee from the site in the police escort vehicle accompanying him. The erring driver of the minister’s car too fled the scene.

Infuriated with the insensitive behaviour exhibited by the minister and his entourage, locals staged a massive protest and blocked the Allahabad highway for a couple of hours demanding immediate arrest of the erring driver and apology from the minister for his inhuman response. It was only after senior police officials reached there and informed the crowd that the erring driver has been arrested that the blockade was lifted.

Reports reaching the director general of police (DGP) headquarters here on Wednesday evening said that the incident took place about 9.30am when the minister of state Gopal Nandi was passing through the Allahabad highway in his motorcade comprising his official red beacon fitted Ambassador car (UP 32 BG 3446), a police escort jeep and a couple of other private vehicles occupied by the supporters of the minister.

The motorcade had barely reached Jigna village under Jagatapur police station on Allahabad highway when the driver of the minister’s car apparently lost control over the wheels and knocked off Saurabh, 15, a local who was cycling his way to school. The car reportedly came to a stop after it rammed into a shop on the roadside but not before hitting two others identified as Anuj and Prem Shanker — both local residents.

Source : Times Of India,22 October 2009

Goa Express-Mathura Mishap:Blame it on negligence of cops. 3 constables cant behold one bloody petty thief??

We all read in the news about the Goa Express train mishap near Mathura. Everyone is blaming on the drivers of the Goa Express train and his negligent driving. But the true story is that the Mewar Express(to which the Goa Express was rammed) was stopped in between two stations because of the chain pulled by someone.

The news says "The Uttar Pradesh police has registered a case against 'unknown persons' after it emerged that the Mewar Express had come to a sudden halt because the emergency chain was pulled, following which the Goa Express rammed into it, killing 22 people."

In Kota (Rajasthan), Additional Superintendent of Police, Bhupendra Sahu, refused to comment on whether an escape attempt by a criminal on the train led to the accident but added, "All the three officials involved in the incident have been suspended and an inquiry has been ordered."

The office of Senior Superintendent of Police, Mathura City, had earlier said it has received two separate complaints -- one relating to the train accident and the other being that of an accused escaping from custody of Rajasthan policemen.

It is alleged that Munna Sazid, an accused in a robbery case, was being taken from Kota to the national capital by the Delhi-bound Mewar Express for a hearing in a Tees Hazari court. He was being accompanied by three police constables of Rajasthan Police -- Ashok Kumar, Veerendra and Bahadur. At the Mathura station, Sazid asked for permission to go to toilet.

As soon as the train started gaining speed, he pushed one of the constables and jumped from the train prompting the police officials to pull the chain to bring it to halt, according to the complaint.

Source : DNA,22 October 2009.