Hyderabad seems to be doing everything in it's power to dispel the illusion about it's being a safe haven for it's fairer denizens with one myth after another about the same biting the dust in quick succession........
In the latest horror, a 12 year old schoolgirl was first heckled and then unceremoniously bundled out of a moving bus because she could summon up the courage and temerity to question the conductor's indecent and appropriate behaviour and raise her voice in protest.......
The plucky 12 year old Amreen Begum was on her way to school last week and had boarded the bus bearing route number 251 when lo and behold she felt the conductor tugging at her headscarf; the petrified girl started entreating the offending conductor to stop this unwelcome behaviour and when her entreaties and plaintive cries had no effect whatsoever on the tyrant, she made her way to the foot board so that she could alight from the bus at the next stop.........
More than one eyewitness swears to the fact that he or she saw the conductor push the young girl off the foot board of the moving bus in a fit of pique and the very same people also saw this girl falling down in an untidy heap and sustaining multiple bruises on both her hands as well as legs.........
Amreen Begum somehow managed to keep her wits about her about her and reach her school, her teachers were dismayed to see her pitiable condition and both her teachers and principal rushed her to Osmania General Hospital for the required treatment and first aid.........
As is their wont, the officials manning the Bahadurpura police station failed to take cognisance of the tattered salwar kameez of the girl and her bleeding injuries, they not only obstinately refused to register a case against the errant conductor but also asked the girl to make her peace with him, Ameena's school authorities said.........
Other students belonging to the same school also alluded to the fact that this was far from being the first such instance and that the same was a recurring nightmare as far as they were concerned; many of her schoolmates admitted to being at the receiving end of not only the conductors sexist and boorish tendencies but also facing the added ignominy of male fellow passengers contributing their two bits worth.........
All one can say in conclusion is that special buses exclusively meant for ladies and women are the crying need of the hour; these buses should be manned by lady conductors and ply regularly during and after office and school hours........
As for the offending conductor/s, the transport authorities would do well to conduct an identification parade at the earliest, the duly identified conductors should be initially suspended for a thirty day period and their salaries for the same period should be disbursed amongst their victims; the authorities should also not hesitate to summarily dismiss such erring conductors from service for good if they continue to persist with these nocturnal behaviours and deplorable tendencies.....
The only question herein being, who will really bite the bullet and provide aid, succour and lasting relief to these harassed women and school girls??????
In the latest horror, a 12 year old schoolgirl was first heckled and then unceremoniously bundled out of a moving bus because she could summon up the courage and temerity to question the conductor's indecent and appropriate behaviour and raise her voice in protest.......
The plucky 12 year old Amreen Begum was on her way to school last week and had boarded the bus bearing route number 251 when lo and behold she felt the conductor tugging at her headscarf; the petrified girl started entreating the offending conductor to stop this unwelcome behaviour and when her entreaties and plaintive cries had no effect whatsoever on the tyrant, she made her way to the foot board so that she could alight from the bus at the next stop.........
More than one eyewitness swears to the fact that he or she saw the conductor push the young girl off the foot board of the moving bus in a fit of pique and the very same people also saw this girl falling down in an untidy heap and sustaining multiple bruises on both her hands as well as legs.........
Amreen Begum somehow managed to keep her wits about her about her and reach her school, her teachers were dismayed to see her pitiable condition and both her teachers and principal rushed her to Osmania General Hospital for the required treatment and first aid.........
As is their wont, the officials manning the Bahadurpura police station failed to take cognisance of the tattered salwar kameez of the girl and her bleeding injuries, they not only obstinately refused to register a case against the errant conductor but also asked the girl to make her peace with him, Ameena's school authorities said.........
Other students belonging to the same school also alluded to the fact that this was far from being the first such instance and that the same was a recurring nightmare as far as they were concerned; many of her schoolmates admitted to being at the receiving end of not only the conductors sexist and boorish tendencies but also facing the added ignominy of male fellow passengers contributing their two bits worth.........
All one can say in conclusion is that special buses exclusively meant for ladies and women are the crying need of the hour; these buses should be manned by lady conductors and ply regularly during and after office and school hours........
As for the offending conductor/s, the transport authorities would do well to conduct an identification parade at the earliest, the duly identified conductors should be initially suspended for a thirty day period and their salaries for the same period should be disbursed amongst their victims; the authorities should also not hesitate to summarily dismiss such erring conductors from service for good if they continue to persist with these nocturnal behaviours and deplorable tendencies.....
The only question herein being, who will really bite the bullet and provide aid, succour and lasting relief to these harassed women and school girls??????
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