Drama atop Mobile Tower : Not Insane Act But Move to Gain Justice
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SB)
Mangalore, Jul 22: Sapna Pereira (40), who had managed to attract attention by climbing atop a mobile transmission tower at Balmatta on Tuesday July 13 is not of unsound mind as it was earlier concluded, it has now been revealed on police investigations. Pereira can now heave a sigh of relief for she had been rescued by the same system, which drove her to take the extreme step tormenting her.
Sapna, who hails from an affluent family of West Bengal was married to Hilary Issac Pereira from Bajpe, who died in a road mishap and is a mother of 13-year-old visually impaired daughter. After her husband’s death her only desire has been to give her daughter a normal life by getting correction surgery done and this has made her worrisome and tensed. She has been braving through life working as a clerk in MP’s office in Mumbai with daughter studying in residential school at Pune. After unsuccessful attempt to get proper treatment from a hospital in Delhi despite 47 visits, she on recommendation from doctors decided to take her to US for treatment for which she was pooling in resources.
In the meantime, she was on a visit to Mangalore to check the status of a robbery complaint she had registered in 2007 at Bajpe police station, which was moving at a pace not favourable to her. After checking in at a lodge near Hampankatta here, her attempts to meet police commissioner, to complain on injustice meted out to her at the station with cold response to her case, went in vain. As if to rub salt to the injury, she found that her belongings, Rs 47,000, gold worth Rs 1.5 lc and a bag containing her, and daughter’s passport along with few other important documents were robbed, allegedly by the hotel staff.
Already a worried mother she was, the incident heightened her frustration and finally prompted her to take the extreme step of climbing the mobile transmission tower to attract attention to her problems when the police in commissioner’s office refused to register a complaint on the aforesaid robbery at lodge. Perhaps her agility came not due to insanity as it was believed earlier, but fuelled by frustration of the moment and the fact that she is a black belt holder in karate.
However, the truth finally prevailed. North police station took up Sapna’s complaint and acted upon it in an instant. Taking custody of the four of the hotel staff, following interrogation they succeeded in recovering gold and cash. However, the staff had burnt the documents and passports now forcing Sapna to wait for months to get duplicate passports.
Police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh has ordered investigations into the complaint on the robbery in the lodge. Indebted with gratitude, Sapna got herself a photograph shot with the police inspector Vinay Gaonkar and sub-inspector Manjunath. The investigation officials have revealed that she is only a caring mother and not of unsound mind as it was made out to be.