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She is deranged, but why?
DOCTORS AT the Ursala Horsman Memorial Hospital say she is deranged and does not have any physical injury. One of her brothers has refused to take responsibility, while a relative, who promised the police to take her home, has not turned up. This is the story of a beautiful girl in her mid twenties. The girl was spotted at the Chetna Crossing near the Court compound as she stood murmuring and gesturing at passers-by.
DOCTORS AT the Ursala Horsman Memorial Hospital say she is deranged and does not have any physical injury. One of her brothers has refused to take responsibility, while a relative, who promised the police to take her home, has not turned up.
This is the story of a beautiful girl in her mid twenties. The girl was spotted at the Chetna Crossing near the Court compound as she stood murmuring and gesturing at passers-by.
As she lies writhing in pain on her hospital bed, she seemed to talk sense. But the traumatized woman kept losing her consciousness quite often and at times made abnormal gestures.
Talking to reporters, she said her name was Anita Agrawal and soon added, “I hate men”. When offered a pen and a piece of paper, she scribbled the names of her brothers and said, “They have been torturing me. They are bad fellows.
They beat me mercilessly.”
As policemen and scribes looked on expecting her to speak more, she started sobbing. Again she picked up the pen and wrote the names her of father (Puran Chand Agrawal), mother (Shanti Devi) and a few other relatives. She also revealed that one Ashey Agrawal of Bangarmau in Kannauj district had married her on May 27 four years ago.
On further queries, she disclosed three addresses. The police then went out to trace them. At the Patkapur residence the Kotwali police could not find anyone, while the other near a Lord Shani temple could not be confirmed.
The girl was first spotted at the Chetna Crossing near the Court compound by one Munni Devi, who runs a betel kiosk nearby.
Munni said as three youths crossed her she badmouthed them. Then in a fit of rage she took off her clothes. “I ran and covered her up with a cloth. Soon the girl lost her consciousness,” Munni Devi recollected.
But this time Kanpurites showed their humanitarian strait (unlike last Saturday when a dead body remained unattended for over 9 hours at the Kanpur Railway Station and no one bothered to act) and came to the rescue of the girl.
Munni Devi and a local Samajwadi Party leader Rani Kashyap was among the Good Samaritans. They dressed up the girl, called the police and took her to the UHM Hospital for medical examination.
Inspector of Kotwali police station Ravi Kant Parashar claimed that one of her brothers had been contacted but he refused to take back her sister, while an uncle of the girl promised to help but did not turn up. He added that UHM Hospital doctors have said the girl was deranged and did not suffer any physical injury.
