Hassan’s Gabbars rule over their own Ramgad

Some of Gorur’s harassed lot told media persons their harrowing experiences. “It is impossible for any respectable person to walk on the streets of Gorur any longer, particularly our womenfolk. It is a long time since any of them went to an evening show of a movie, thanks to these goondas,” Vishwanath said. “The goons just need a flimsy reason to start adispute. They gang up together against us, while neither do we have the time nor the energy to fight them. After all we have our own troubles to look into,” was what Chandrashekharaiah had to say. “It has become a matter of routine for them to beat up our family members and destroy our property.”There has even been a new police station with adequate staff, but they have been mere onlookers to the drama outside. “We are left with only two options: mass exodus or mass suicide in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office,” Chandrashekharaiah says.

At this juncture, Muneerabi comes out with her own tale of woe. She relates what happened on April 20 when a petty quarrel between two people led to a serious clash in the entire Ambedkar Nagar. Even women and children were attacked with sticks and boulders; rooftops, doors and windows were smashed; doors opened forcibly; inmates totally unrelated to the quarrel dragged out and beaten up mercilessly. “This happened in all the houses that night, even those whichhad nothing to do with the quarrel,” she says.