HYDERABAD: In but every other case of mob violence fuelled by means of rumour-mongering, a girl ragpicker was once roughed up by means of a group of locals in the Afzal Sagar area of Mallepally on Monday.
Suspecting her to be a child-lifter, residents of the within sight Mangar Basti, first interrogated 19-year-old Nagamani, and later thrashed her for failing to give sufficient replies. The girl was once subsequently rescued by means of the Habeeb Nagar police who reached the spot on being alerted about the incident.
The incident, police mentioned, came about in the afternoon when the lady from Ziaguda went to Balram Hotel in Mallepally to buy chips. Prior to that, she along with every other ragpicker Nagraju, had consumed toddy at a toddy compound near Bhoiguda Kaman.
On spotting the ragpicker consume chips by means of herself, the suspicious locals, provoked by means of social media rumours about child lifters making the rounds of city roads, cornered the teenager and demanded to know her whereabouts. When she could now not give them a sufficient response, most likely for being in a drunken situation, the locals beat her up, the police mentioned.
The law enforcement officials had been alerted when the mob started to develop, thus placing the lifetime of the rag-picker in danger. “We reached the spot quickly after and freed her from the gang. She was once later shifted to the Habeeb Nagar police station,” mentioned Ok Ashok Chakravarthy, assistant commissioner of police, Asifnagar (who's these days in-charge of the Goshamahal department). He added: “We have conducted independent inquiries about the background of the rag- picker and located that she does now not belong to any child-lifting gang.”
Meanwhile, following directions from the commissioner of police (Hyderabad) the Rein Bazaar police conducted an consciousness programme, to warning other folks towards social media rumours, at the Murtuza Chaman and all different mosques within in limits.
Suspecting her to be a child-lifter, residents of the within sight Mangar Basti, first interrogated 19-year-old Nagamani, and later thrashed her for failing to give sufficient replies. The girl was once subsequently rescued by means of the Habeeb Nagar police who reached the spot on being alerted about the incident.
The incident, police mentioned, came about in the afternoon when the lady from Ziaguda went to Balram Hotel in Mallepally to buy chips. Prior to that, she along with every other ragpicker Nagraju, had consumed toddy at a toddy compound near Bhoiguda Kaman.
On spotting the ragpicker consume chips by means of herself, the suspicious locals, provoked by means of social media rumours about child lifters making the rounds of city roads, cornered the teenager and demanded to know her whereabouts. When she could now not give them a sufficient response, most likely for being in a drunken situation, the locals beat her up, the police mentioned.
The law enforcement officials had been alerted when the mob started to develop, thus placing the lifetime of the rag-picker in danger. “We reached the spot quickly after and freed her from the gang. She was once later shifted to the Habeeb Nagar police station,” mentioned Ok Ashok Chakravarthy, assistant commissioner of police, Asifnagar (who's these days in-charge of the Goshamahal department). He added: “We have conducted independent inquiries about the background of the rag- picker and located that she does now not belong to any child-lifting gang.”
Meanwhile, following directions from the commissioner of police (Hyderabad) the Rein Bazaar police conducted an consciousness programme, to warning other folks towards social media rumours, at the Murtuza Chaman and all different mosques within in limits.
Woman ragpicker roughed up by locals at Mallepally
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