Cop beats up SSC student who couldn't make way for him in crowded bus

Abdul Sattar Supariwala may end up missing his board oral exam today

Abdul Sattar Supariwala may end up missing his board oral exam today

Abdul Sattar Supariwala (17), from St Xavier's High School, Fort, was brutally beaten up by a cop last evening simply because the SSC student was unable to make way for him while they were travelling in the same BEST bus.

Bloodbath: Abdul Sattar Supariwala, St Xavier's Std X student who was beaten by a cop on a BEST bus last evening. pic/Atul Kamble

Assistant Sub-Inspector Chandrashekar Pawar (51) from Tardeo police station and Abdul, who was returning from his tuitions, were in a BEST bus on route no 67.

Abdul may now end up missing his Hindi oral exam in school today.

Crowded bus

Abdul and his cousin Abdul Latif boarded the bus, which was jam packed, from Nana Chowk for his home in Nagpada at around 8.30 pm.

A bleeding Abdul told MiD DAY, "Since there was no space, I could not move ahead. The ASI boarded the bus at Tardeo and started screaming at me. When I did not move, he punched me in my face and dragged me out of the bus."

Abdul, who was in tears while narrating the incident, said, he could not push ahead because there were female commuters standing ahead.

Vijay Kanojia, a social worker who happened to see the commotion at the Tardeo traffic signal, intervened and accompanied Abdul to the police station. Said Kanojia, "The cops were letting Pawar go home. They booked him only when Abdul's cousin called the family.''

DCP Ashok Deshbratar, said, "Pawar should have acted responsibly. We will take necessary action against him after getting his and Abdul's medical reports."

The medical test will detect if Pawar was drunk at the time of the incident. He has been booked under IPC sections 323 (for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), but has not been arrested yet.

Commuters shaken
Aqsa Asif Chappalwala, a student from St Xavier's college, who was in the bus, said, "Pawar was very rude and he brutally hit Abdul.

If cops start behaving like this, who can we trust to protect us."

Another student in the bus, Ishrat Nizamuddin Chaudhary, said, "Pawar was hitting and abusing Abdul. All the commuters were scared."