Pics & report:  Silvester D'Souza

Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (RJP)

Kundapur, Jan 3:  A youngster was found behaving like a mentally disturbed person in Senapura railway station near Kundapur on Saturday morning, January 3.  The local people  admitted him to Matha hospital. Later it was learnt that the said person was a photographer and web designer from Delhi.

As per details, the person was found dancing at the railway station. The people who watched him informed about it to  a person named Gopala. When Gopala came to the railway station  with others, the youth who was talking in Hindi tried to attack them. When the people tried to pacify the youngster, he threatened that he would jump into the railway tracks.

The people sensing that something would go wrong, tied the person with ropes. Upon insistence, the youngster  provided his father’s phone number. When contacted the father of the youngster revealed that his son was a photographer and web designer.

The father also said that his son had gone to Kerala and Karnataka on a photography mission. Later with the help of Gangolli based Mohammed Ibrahim of 24*7 helpline, he was brought to Kundapur government hospital where the hospital refused to treat him after some preliminary tests. He was again brought to Matha hospital where he gained his consciousness completely and started talking properly.

Now as per reports from eyewitnesses, he was not mentally disturbed as suspected earlier but a sane person. It is also revealed that he did a photography course at an academy.

A camera worth Rs 1. 5 lacs and a mobile were found in the possession of the young man. But he did not have any cash. Now it is believed that he was intoxicated with some substances by unknownpeople to steal his other possessions.

Meanwhile his family members have asked the hospital to look after him properly before they reach Kundapur to take him.