Mob vents fury on hapless woman

For P Pushpavati, it was an ordeal that she would like to forget. She was among the several people caught in a ruckus created by a group of people who went berserk during a religious procession on Tuesday.With her newborn baby in the lap, Pushpavathi was pulled out of an auto and almost attacked by a mob before some Good Samaritans came to her rescue.Her only fault was engaging the auto of a person belonging to a particular community.A resident of Ashok Nagar, Pushpavati hired an auto to Gandhi hospital to get medicines.“The mob suddenly started assaulting the driver. They did not heed to my request to allow us to go,’’ a shocked Pushpavathi said.The mob was breaking the glass panes of the vehicle with flag rods when the CRPF teams rushed to the rescue of the driver and the woman.Pushpavati’s nightmare, however, did not end there. As the forces moved away, the mob returned and started attacking the vehicle and the driver again.It was a group of saffron-clad youngsters who came to the rescue of the auto driver and the woman. They managed to prevail upon the mob and forced them to disperse from there and took care of the duo. They gave them water and later sent them out of the melee safely.“I did not even make a comment against them. I was just taking the woman to the Gandhi hospital. They assaulted and abused me without a reason,’’ the horrified auto driver said.

 

By Mouli Mareedu