A 21-year-old female student has suffered cruel fate after she was mistaken for a hit and run driver who killed a villager. The young girl was severely beaten and stripped by an angry mob in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
Police stood by and watched as the mob paraded the Tanzanian woman naked around the streets and set the car she was in on fire, local reports claim.
Even a bystander who tried to help her was also reported to have been beaten and when she tried to escape on a bus, the passengers are said to have thrown her back to the mob.
Deccan Chronicle reported that the woman, a second year student at Acharya College, had nothing to do with another car, driven by a Sudanese man, that hit and killed a 35-year-old Hesaraghatta resident on Sunday night.
Bosco Kaweesi, a legal adviser at the All African Students Union, said: 'She’s Tanzanian, the man who caused the accident comes from Sudan, they didn’t even know each other.
'The scared students were forced out of the car and then the car was set ablaze. The driver of the second car... was beaten up black and blue by the mob who then stripped the girl student.
'When someone from the crowd offered her a T-Shirt to save her modesty, that man too was beaten up by the mob.
'She later, with her torn clothes, tried to enter a BMTC bus that had slowed down nearby, but the passengers in the bus pushed her back down on to the road... People were streaming out from buses, auto-rickshaws and charging towards them, punching and kicking them.'
The student lost her valuables such as passports, ATM cards and cash, when the mob set the car ablaze. The footage of her burning car was broadcast by NDTV.
The five injured students are said to have been kicked out of hospital because they had no means of paying their bills and had no money. They also had no way of contacting their parents because someone robbed their phones, Bosco added.
It has been alleged that the Indian police have shamelessly refused to attend to the Tanzanian girl as they said she must bring the driver who hit the villager.
Bosco added: 'When the girl did not even know about the accident or the spot where it happened, how can she bring in the driver of the car.'
The Tanzanian Embassy demanded a detailed report on the incident from student leaders so they can pursue the issue diplomatically.
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