It certainly seems to be getting more bizarre and insane with the passing of every single day.......
An approximately five to six minute long video starring haughty and disdainful Ganesh Pandal organisers and their seemingly hapless and defenceless victims belonging to a minority community has gone viral raising the hackles of all right minded and thinking people as well as raising pertinent and timely questions about the harrowing plight of the minorities in our motherland.......
This seemingly distasteful; offensive; reprehensible and regressive video was shot by a bystander who happened/stumbled upon a bunch of goons who were trying to extort a sum of Rs. 100 each from eleven Uttar Pradesh based youths belonging to a minority religious denomination on the pretext of organising the forthcoming Ganesh Utsav in Pune's bustling and teeming Bhosari-Alandi Road area.......
According to eyewitness accounts twenty or so louts who claimed to be the "organising members"of the so called Shri Ram ganesh Mandal rudely and brusquely accosted the afore mentioned 11 young men; all of whom were aged between 20-30 and demanded that they part with the sum of Rs. 100/- each forthwith in order to facilitate the arrangements of the planned "Ganpati Vargani" celebrations........
Citing their relative poverty and meagre daily income ranging between Rs. 150 to 200 per day as they eked out a miserable existence as daily wage labourers the 11 men pleaded their case and agreed to cough up a sum of Rs. 50 each as that was all they could afford to part with owing to their relative state of impoverishment and penury........
Their pleas for mercy however only served to anger and infuriate these rowdies masquerading as Ganesh Pandal organisers who lorded over them and sentenced them to undergo the ignominy of performing fifty squats each while holding their ears and coupled the atrocity with racial slurs; taunts and implied threats about their safety and security if they as much as dared to spend another day earning a living in Pune at the cost of locals........
Fearing for their lifes and existence; the 11 men who originally hailed from various parts of Uttar Pradesh these harrowed and harangued men left for their respective native places in the late evening hours of the fateful day of August 22 in search of seemingly safer and saner climes where they could earn their sustenance in relative peace and anonymity........
Local police personnel who took due cognisance of the atrocities meted out to these 11 men have since booked cases against three of the twenty or so louts seen in the highly deplorable video under bailable sections of the IPC and issued summons to the three gents ordering them to approach a local court on the morning of August 25; 2016 and obtain bail by paying the fines applied by the concerned judge upon each one of them.......
I for one am deeply concerned and perturbed about the future of a nation where untold and unseemly atrocities against minorities and supposedly inferior castes have become the order of the day and more significantly fail to understand how fellow Indians become "outsiders" or "Outcastes" in other states/parts of the country when the Indian Constitution confers every Indian irrespective of his religion or place of birth the right to live and earn an existence in any nook and cranny of his/her beloved and revered motherland.........
An approximately five to six minute long video starring haughty and disdainful Ganesh Pandal organisers and their seemingly hapless and defenceless victims belonging to a minority community has gone viral raising the hackles of all right minded and thinking people as well as raising pertinent and timely questions about the harrowing plight of the minorities in our motherland.......
This seemingly distasteful; offensive; reprehensible and regressive video was shot by a bystander who happened/stumbled upon a bunch of goons who were trying to extort a sum of Rs. 100 each from eleven Uttar Pradesh based youths belonging to a minority religious denomination on the pretext of organising the forthcoming Ganesh Utsav in Pune's bustling and teeming Bhosari-Alandi Road area.......
According to eyewitness accounts twenty or so louts who claimed to be the "organising members"of the so called Shri Ram ganesh Mandal rudely and brusquely accosted the afore mentioned 11 young men; all of whom were aged between 20-30 and demanded that they part with the sum of Rs. 100/- each forthwith in order to facilitate the arrangements of the planned "Ganpati Vargani" celebrations........
Citing their relative poverty and meagre daily income ranging between Rs. 150 to 200 per day as they eked out a miserable existence as daily wage labourers the 11 men pleaded their case and agreed to cough up a sum of Rs. 50 each as that was all they could afford to part with owing to their relative state of impoverishment and penury........
Their pleas for mercy however only served to anger and infuriate these rowdies masquerading as Ganesh Pandal organisers who lorded over them and sentenced them to undergo the ignominy of performing fifty squats each while holding their ears and coupled the atrocity with racial slurs; taunts and implied threats about their safety and security if they as much as dared to spend another day earning a living in Pune at the cost of locals........
Fearing for their lifes and existence; the 11 men who originally hailed from various parts of Uttar Pradesh these harrowed and harangued men left for their respective native places in the late evening hours of the fateful day of August 22 in search of seemingly safer and saner climes where they could earn their sustenance in relative peace and anonymity........
Local police personnel who took due cognisance of the atrocities meted out to these 11 men have since booked cases against three of the twenty or so louts seen in the highly deplorable video under bailable sections of the IPC and issued summons to the three gents ordering them to approach a local court on the morning of August 25; 2016 and obtain bail by paying the fines applied by the concerned judge upon each one of them.......
I for one am deeply concerned and perturbed about the future of a nation where untold and unseemly atrocities against minorities and supposedly inferior castes have become the order of the day and more significantly fail to understand how fellow Indians become "outsiders" or "Outcastes" in other states/parts of the country when the Indian Constitution confers every Indian irrespective of his religion or place of birth the right to live and earn an existence in any nook and cranny of his/her beloved and revered motherland.........
No comments:
Post a Comment