Two disturbing pieces of news today..
#1) Beggar couple “robbed by policeman”
Staff Reporter
TIRUNELVELI: A couple, who are begging around Tirunelveli Junction to feed their two children, on Monday forwarded a complaint to the Tirunelveli City Police Commissioner seeking action against robbers led by a policeman, who beat and steal money from the beggars.
According to K. Kavitha, who is begging along with her husband P. Kannan and collecting metal scrap and plastic products to augment their earning, said her husband was robbed of Rs.200 on July 18 by one ‘Police Murali’ and in the second incident, her brother Antony, a physically disabled youth, lost Rs.630 to this law-enforcer on last March 4.
“The most painful day in my life was October 22, 2007, as ‘Police Murali’ and three others threatened me and took my savings of Rs.1,200,” she wept.
#2) In Vizag, Boy’s body dumped near track by parents
VISAKHAPATNAM: The body of a little boy found beside the railway track near Chavulamadhum on Tuesday led to rumours that he was murdered.According to Government Railway Police (GRP) CI P. Srinivasa Rao, the boy – Bishoi – was a patient suffering from severe anaemia. His parents took him for treatment and were returning by the Prasanthi Express on Tuesday when he died before the train reached Vijayawada. Being very poor, they laid the body beside the track and were leaving the place when the Railway Police took them into custody.
“They said they had no money to perform the funeral and medical reports also supported their statements that the boy was a patient,” Mr. Srinivasa Rao said.
