There’s a man in your area. He is a drug addict, is very seriously ill, has injuries to his leg, is very untidy and had a bleeding head.

What do you do ?

Well, if you ask the residents of Ambedkar Road, Shivaji Chowk in Kalyan(W), Mumbai ; you’ll probably get a shocking answer.

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The man you see in the above pic was lying around in the above area for quite some days. The resident, fed up of him told some local cart-pushers to get rid of him somewhere.

And what do they do ?

They tie him like an animal to their cart, take him off and dump him near a garbage-bin.

Mumbai Mirror reporter Santosh Shinde tells us that when he asked the cart-pullers, the reply he got was “Why are you worried, he is going to die within two days,”

The story says that When the police were informed, they said that drug addicts were a common problem in the area. It is not known whether they acted on the reporter’s information.

Records of both the GRP and the Municipal Hospital in Kalyan show that on an average the number of unclaimed bodies, mostly comprising drug addicts and beggars, was around five a day.

The story is shocking and raises questions on the “Human” spirit of the 21st Century.

Now, I won’t totally blame the cart-pushers here, who of-course were concerned with the money they were gonna get. But the residents, they truly deserve an award ( actually not all, just the one person who contacted the cart-pushers )

So here’s fifty paise to the residents, and an additional cent to “that” resident. May you rot in hell.

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Here’s fifty paise to the cart pushers. May you end up the same way.