Mangalore: Citizens Shaken by Bus Driver’s Brutal Treatment of Senior Citizen

Pics: Dayananda Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RS/CN) 
 
Mangalore, Mar 8:  An elderly lady and a 52-year-old man were allegedly beaten and pushed by a bus driver after failing to reach them to their destination.

The incident took place near Milagres in the city on Saturday March 7, in the evening. Sixty-year-old Pushpa and her relative Jayachandran  Nair, from  Karamana in Trivandrum, Kerala, were the victims.

Along with seven other members of their family, they had been on a visit to the Sri Mookambika Temple in and were on their way to the railway station in the bus which belongs to Raj Kumar Travels. 
 

The group claims to have boarded the bus after confirming with the conductor that the bus would go to the railway station and were issued tickets. However, on reaching Milagres bus stop,  they were asked to get down there.

At this, the group protested saying it was too far from the railway station and they were being cheated as they had paid for tickets to the railway station.

However, the driver and conductor allegedly refused to listen to them and instead began compelling them to leave the bus.

At their refusal to comply, the bus driver allegedly forced them to alight from the bus and beat them with a wooden stick.

As a result of the beating, Pushpa fell down and her nose started to bleed. The other members of the family got down in an attempt to protect the duo and at this, the driver drove the bus away leaving them there.
 
The family has lodged a complaint with Mangalore north police (Bunder).

People who witnessed the incident have called for strict action against driver and conductor and asked for cancellation of their bus permit.

The city which planned to operate state government-owned city buses had dropped the idea after being pressurized by the private bus owners of the city.
 
Many such incidents such as the one where a girl who vomited due to motion sickness was made to clean the bus, and an incident in Udupi where a woman was forced to get down from a bus, are generating a bad image of private buses and their staff.