Bengaluru: A 25-year-old girl was publicly beaten up by her parents in Public in Halasuru on Thursday morning, while the city police officials were busy in celebrating ‘‘International Women’s Day’ at the Commissioner’s Office.
The passers-by were mute spectators to the incident, which took place at around 10 am. She was rescued only when two women rushed to help her, before alerting the police.
The victim has been identified as Ramya (name changed) and was thrashed by her father Rajaram, a sub-inspector with Madurai police. Rumours of her alleged affair was behind this incident and the parents wanted to teach her a lesson. Her mother, a teacher by profession, did not stop her husband from beating her up in public. The girl was then rescued by passerby two girls and brought her to their car.
After the public alerated the police, cops reached the spot in half an hour. Later the police brought the victim and her parents to the police station and let them off after counseling. The police called it a minor incident and sent them off withour registering any complaint.
Ramya, who hails from Madurai, works for a a private firm in Bengaluru. However, she denied allegations of affair with any person. Police told newskarnataka.com that the girl’s parents wanted her to move back to her native and marry a person of their choice.
Facebook post by an eye witness
Nivedita Chakraborty | Facebook
Barely few days since India’s Daughter stirred the world, we witnessed another shameful incident in Bengaluru on Thursday.
On our way to office, me and my friend Archana were shocked to see a girl aged about 25 being beaten black and blue by a strong well built man, with at least 50 people standing on the street and simply watching.
Me and Archana rushed out of the car, pushed the man back in an attempt to loosen his grip on the girl. He was grabbing the girl by her hair, slapping her, kicking her in the groin as she fell down on the road. Archana started pushing the man while I tried untangling the girls hair from his fingers. Once freed, we along with the girl sought refuge inside our car. The man sat down on the car bonnet, refusing to let us drive.
The girl, Surya is working in Bengaluru. The man beating her up on the streets publicly is none other than her father, RajaRam, a sub-inspector with Madurai police. Her mother, a silent spectator of the entire incident is a teacher in Madurai. The parents had heard rumors of their daughter having an affair and was hence “teaching her a lesson”, refusing to listen to her or believe her denying the affair.
The father wanted to take her back to Madurai, against the wishes of the adult daughter and forcibly marry her to someone of their choice. The mother, a teacher kept blaming Surya for the “shame that she has brought upon her family”.
We called the police, who came after 30 min and took the family away to Ulsoor Police station.
Not only, was the parents behavior shocking and gruesome , but what was more shameful was the silent spectators on the street who stood watching the entire drama, not willing to save the girl or aid and support us, who were at least trying.
If a policeman chose to physically and publicly abuse his adult daughter, how are we safe in the hands of such “protectors of law”??
If a teacher mistrusts and blames her adult daughter while supporting her husband’s abusive behavior, how can we entrust our children’s grooming to such “educators and shapers of young India”
