Shame India : Mob strips Tanzanian girl in Bengaluru

A Tanzanian girl studying in the city was allegedly beaten and stripped of all her clothes by an angry mob in the outskirts of Bengaluru. The reason for the assault was a car driven by a Sudanese student which ran over a 35-year-old local woman resident a few minutes before she landed there. But the Sudanese student had escaped after the accident. The woman, a 21-year-old student, reached the same spot in her car after a few minutes. Locals who were seething with anger dragged her out of the car, thrashed and later stripped of her clothes and set the car on fire. She alleges that she was made to parade around naked. According to her the local police did nothing to prevent the mob. A report in Deccan Chronicle claims that travelling in another car, a Wagon-R, along with four others, the young woman arrived on the scene some 30 minutes later. She was dragged out of the car after it was surrounded and stopped by the mob on Sunday. When a concerned bystander tried to cover her with a T-shirt, he too was beaten. When she attempted to board a bus and escape, the passengers of the bus threw her back into the arms of the mob. The four others she was travelling with were also assaulted after the mob that was angered after a car driven by a Sudanese youth ran over and killed a local resident, waylaid the second car, which the local African Association, said arrived on the scene a full 30 minutes later and was not even remotely connected to Sunday’s Hesaraghatta accident. “She’s Tanzanian, the man who caused the accident comes from Sudan, they didn’t even know each other,” said Bosco Kaweesi, Legal Adviser, All African Students Union in Bengaluru. The Tanzanian girl alleges that the police refused to register a case saying her that they will take her complaint only if she brought in the driver who ran over a 35-year-old woman. She told them that she did not even know about the accident and had nothing to do with that Sudanese student. The Tanzanian Embassy in New Delhi has sought a detailed report about the whole incident. The Bengaluru City Police have started an investigation into the whole incident.