Crime: Mindless Mumbai allows woman to lie naked

A day after Durga puja and the victory of good over evil, there has been a spate of crime against women. A hapless disoriented 20-year-old woman was allowed to lie naked for hours on a Mumbai street even as people were busy taking out processions. Nobody cared. And there is more – of a gruesome hit and run case in Mumbai, harassment and murder.

Mumbai is sometimes described as a metro without a mind. People are so busy that they hardly find time for caring or being concerned for others. And on Monday night, as the festival lights were still on, Mumbai just showed its dark and heartless face when a semi-conscious , stark naked woman was allowed to lie bang on a busy road in Powai for several hours. No one cared, no one bothered and none were concerned or moved.

The woman was in her 20s and was homeless. She was found lying, ironically enough, near the upmarket Hiranandani Gardens complex. People were found coming back after the festivities or a grand dinner; some were out on a post-dinner walk. But nobody cared to help or enquire about the problem of the hapless woman.

Ironically, even as she lay on Central Avenue Road, a loud musical procession of Durga devotees passed by for immersion at Powai Lake.

Sources said that the woman looked dazed and was sitting on the pavement since evening. At 9 pm, she lost whatever little energy she had and had to sprawl on the road naked.

Finally, a local shop assistant partially covered her body with a gunny sack. She had to spend a few more hours before some residents learned of the hapless girl and came to her rescue. They tried calling the police and a van arrived by 11.40 pm and picked her up in a stretcher. Strangely enough, instead of taking her to a hospital, the police took her to the Powai police station.

The police said that the girl appeared mentally retarded and abandoned. They are planning to shift her to a woman's home in Chembur.

To be fair, a few women did come to help the girl, but that was a good five hours later.

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Accept the fact and move on.

Humans have become selfish and no one wants to get their hands dirty by helping someone. Let this world end soon, these humans really do not deserve a 2nd chance

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Agnel's Signature:

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I know this sounds cruel but i don't think anyone will help in an upmarket area. Max u will do is call and tell the police.

in this day and age there is more chance getting in trouble trying to help. The lady eg. could level false charges against u if she thinks u are rich and she could make do with some extortion.

Most of u will do the same, but maybe not say that here.
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^^ but even then safin, no-one bothered to do anything for hours, simply left the poor girl to lie in the gutter like so much rubbish....... wtf how have we become so indifferent to the suffering of others that we turn a blind eye to those in need????

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patch01's Signature:

There are too many ppl in India Patch and too little resources to share. Slowly that makes one selfish and indifferent from others.

One thing I foudn that Indians lack basic courtesy and some are shameless proud of that behavior, pathetic fools

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Yeah, I understand what you're saying agnel, but this is beyond the ordinary..... Ok, so in ultra poor areas of the city, naked or sem-naked women aren't out of the ordinary, (could easily be prostitutes or stoners), but this was supposedly an upmarket area of town, surely there'd be someone with enough of a clue to realise that naked girls aren't an everyday occurrence, and either see if she needed help or, just as easily, called the police or the ambo's to investigate and action as the case may require...

To be honest, this smacks of a double standard.... Justifiably, there is a hue & cry over the bashings of Indian students in Australia and so there should be, the hooligans involved in these attacks are a growing menace, (not that long ago, an 89 year old war veteran was beaten to death by three young louts in the Melbourne suburb of Ashburton). But here in what could be called the heart of India, a naked woman lies in the street and no-one gives a toss

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