Mangalore: Merciless KSRTC Bus Conductor Throws Out Disabled Passenger
Pics: Prajwal Ukkuda
Daijiworld Media Network- Mangalore (RS/SP)
Mangalore; Mar. 21. In a merciless and inhuman act, the bus conductor of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) forcibly pushed down a handicapped person from the bus, earning the wrath of the local people at Padil in the city on Saturday, March 21.
Sharif, a 30- year-old from Chikmagalur, who had to face the ignonimity of being physically pushed out of the bus, was seen seeking help from the passersby to be able to move towards the bus stop. Later, he explained his plight to a woman and a man who carried him to the bus stop. Blood was seen oozing out his knees which were covered with bandage.
Shariff does not have his legs below the knee portion. He was dropped off a little away from the Padil bus stand by the ruthless conductor. He said, he lost his legs in an earlier accident.
He had been to the city for getting treatment for his knee wounds at the local Wenlock Hospital in the city. He said, he picked the bus at the main KSRTC bus stand in Bejai here. The conductor forced him to get down from the bus a little further from Padil bus stop, Shariff confessed.
Sharif said, the conductor pushed out of the bus by holding his shirt collar and all the time hurling choicest abuses towards him. The conductor had in the first place, asked him to get down, and later claimed that he could not travel alone without being escorted by any one, he explained.
"I came to the hospital through KSRTC bus. So far, no one else treated me like this and I am travelling through buses for long but this is first such experience for me," Shariff overtaken with insult and agony, said.
Every one treats me as friend and some of the bus conductors do not demand even the bus fare from me, he added. The doctor in the Wenlock Hospital had given him Rs. 200 as travel expenses, after coming to know that Shariff did not have enough money to travel back, he revealed.
The people who gathered at the spot condemned the action of the conductor, which they termed as merciless and cruel..They demanded from the KSRTC traffic controller who came to spot, to suspend the conductor concerned from duty, pending inquiry.
Later he was sent through another KSRTC bus to Chikmagalur from Padil with the help of locals. The local corporator, who arrived at the spot after getting information about the incident, provided him financial help.