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The Hindu
Teenager uses Dial 100 in vain to save brother from fatal attack, exposing police negligence in rural Telangana.
On June 13, Saritha was winding up household chores and preparing to join her elder brother and parents in the agriculture fields around noon when a neighbour came running to her. Breathless with urgency, he told the 15-year-old girl that her family members were being attacked by a group of relatives over an alleged land dispute.
The worried teenager left her unfinished work and rushed to the crop fields near her home in Chinnaporla village in Utkoor mandal of Telangana’s Narayanapet district, nearly 180 km from Hyderabad. From a distance, she saw her brother Sanjeev (28) surrounded by a few people and being beaten up. As she inched closer, the screams of the mob grew shriller.
“I tried to stop the attackers but in vain. Most of them were our relatives and acquaintances living in our vicinity,” Saritha alleges. Realising that Sanjeev’s life was in grave danger, she picked up his mobile phone lying on the ground and decided to make use of the ‘Dial 100’ emergency response facility.
“The phone kept ringing but there was no response. Then I started recording a video of the attack on the same phone,” she shares, adding that the assailants even threatened her to stop recording. “They beat Sanjeev anna with wooden logs as he screamed for help. Any other person of average built would have died following one blow but he could resist them for some time since he was strong,” she says, fighting back tears.
Her mother, Kavitha, also tried to intervene and save Sanjeev but “ended up getting thrashed as well”, she adds.
After Sanjeev lost consciousness, the assailants fled the scene. Saritha says she dialled 100 again for help, but it failed to get connected.
An hour later, a constable of the nearby Utkoor police station arrived at the spot. Since four-wheelers could not reach the spot from the village, a tractor was arranged with the help of village sarpanch Ravinder Reddy.
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