Bengaluru: Payment issue - Ambulance driver flees after leaving corona patient's body on footpath


Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, May 28: In another incident that shows the extent to which the people can go to force the other person to cough up money by making use of his or her predicament in the guise of coronavirus, an ambulance driver who was carrying the mortal remains of a Covid19 patient dropped off the body on the footpath and sped away. He did this reportedly as the family could not afford to pay him Rs 18,000 which he demanded from them.

Inhuman incidents often get reported in the midst of stories which exemplify the human side of the citizens during trying times. Many people have behaved as if for them, money is all that matters.


Amruthahalli police station (file photo)

The driver of an ambulance in this incident, behaved rudely with the family of the deceased. It happened near the Hebbal crematorium. When the body of the Covid-infected person was taken there for cremation, the ambulance driver reportedly sought payment of Rs 18,000. As they could not pay the money, he just kept the body on the footpath and sped away. The driver has been identified as Sharat Gowda.

Anuj Singh, who was being treated for his Covid infection for the last some days, had breathed his last. The body was being taken to Hebbal crematorium when Sharat Gowda reportedly demanded Rs 18,000 from Anuj's wife. The woman somehow put together Rs 3,000 and offered to pay the balance amount to the driver after sometime. When the ambulance neared the crematorium, the driver forced the woman to pay the balance amount immediately. The lady pleaded with him for some time, explaining that at the moment, she did not have money and promised to pay sometime later. But the driver, instead of showing mercy on the woman who lost her husband just then, put down the body from the ambulance on the footpath and went away.

Complaint in this regard has since been filed in the police station against driver Sharat Gowda and Nagesh.

The staff of the crematorium, hearing the wails of the woman, came out and carried the body inside. Later, the in-charge of the crematorium filed complaint in Amruthahalli police station. The police are now on the lookout for the accused.

It may be recalled that the health minister, deputy chief minister and orders of the state government have repeatedly asserted that tough steps would be taken if injustice is noticed when carrying the bodies of the Covid19 victims. Still, incidents of these kinds continue to happen. People feel that if the guilty are identified and brought to book early, it might serve as a warning to others who too may be inclined to turn inhuman for the sake of money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  • Sunil, Mangalore

    Sat, May 29 2021

    Usual behaviour of people hailing from North Karnataka. No moral values and only money minded.

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  • KS Mayya, Mangalore/Bangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    We have to blame ourselves that we live among these people and it is not new. This kind of animal behavior is at all levels. I had a friend fighting for life and death, who eventually passed away. The doctor asked to pay advance Rs. 1L for expensive injections which they had said they do not have already previous night to someone else visiting and none of us were aware. We finally arranged the injection that evening. In the meantime, the same hospital extracted another Rs. 50k from another person from our company again as advance. Next day, they declared our friend dead. This was in the last week of April and as of this day, the doctor is not picking phone, and the hospital is asking personal visit to hospital to collect bills. They allowed possession of dead body saying they have money that needs to be reimbursed. All of the money was gone just like that. In this pandemic humans have crossed new levels of shamelessness. No exception of education, influence or anything.

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  • Haneef, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Let me see how remnants of British comment now.

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  • ca girishkk, m'lore/dxb

    Fri, May 28 2021

    What to say....????? Aatma Nirbhar Bharat or Aatma Nirgatik & niraadhar Bharat....!!!! Nav Bharat syndrome ....., where is Suriya...????? the ambulance driver's name sounds Nationalist....!!!! If i am not mistaken,.... the lady could have reached to PFI volunteers...!!!!, i can't continue as it begin too much foul smell.....

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  • Ganesh, Mangaluru

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Thank you for not continuing. Actually you should have stopped right after "What to say? " as nothing is better than nonsense. We all complain about our politicians..yet in comments so many "regulars" have the habit of dragging politics and religion without good reason.

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  • Prakash, Dubai

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Suryaa O suryaa, where are you now. Hope you are busy in marketing for private hospitals. hindu brothers are suffering , you can do business on their dead bodies too.

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  • Rita, Germany

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Prakash Dubai,you were calling Surya?Which one ?Driver or the above on sky?Above n sky must be hiding ,seeing how people make money and heartless ,no humanity .Corona has made them to dig money from suffering people.When you mean Gowda,Surya ,is elsewhere to dig money from another opfer.What if such people were on the other side of track and were lying on the stretcher on the way to crematorium?Very hard ,cant understand.Heartless are still exist in this society instead of helping to each other.Heartfelt sympathy to this family of deceased.

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  • Prakash, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Very sad. Even death Anuj's wife has to face such Inhumane act from Sharat Gowda Ambulance driver.

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  • Varun, mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    mere condemnation is not suffice. Should cancel his license .

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  • Subhash Chandra, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Ambulance driver may be some BJP follower, remember that MLA incident near tarikere accident.

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  • Peace Lover, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    The Family could have seek help from PFI or any local Muslim Organizations

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Nallasopara

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Why no one is talking about 2,000 bodies floating in Ganga ...

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  • Jason Dias, Niddodi/Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    @Jossey, instead of sitting at the banks of river Ganga and counting the floating dead bodies, do some social work during this pandemic !!!

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  • Dylan, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    All this happens in open what are Union and State Government doing? ,no rates fixed to carry a covid affected body. ₹ 18k really high to carry a body......... Just fleecing people of the situation. All this is effects of digital money.

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  • SJM, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Only happening BJP ruled. Shame on CM and his Ministers

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Very very sad to know this. But I suggest in future PRE PAID.,ambulance services may be the best system. That what I believe.

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  • I wish I was There, Bahrain

    Fri, May 28 2021

    What days are come, Very Sad

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  • PINTO, Mangalore

    Fri, May 28 2021

    This inhuman act deserves to be condemned in the strongest words..driver should be arrested and forced to pick roadside garbage for few hours as a punishment

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  • Fredrick Sequeira, Kallianpur

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Very sad incident. The driving licencrd should be cancelled life long.

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  • Anand, Surathkal

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Break right leg of this driver so that he could never drive any vehicle in his life. Unfit to be an ambulance driver.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Nallasopara

    Fri, May 28 2021

    Hard to believe this is happening in our Karnataka ...

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  • Guru, Mulki

    Fri, May 28 2021

    At Nallasopra its common.

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  • kujuma, mangaluru

    Fri, May 28 2021

    without reading the news I could make out that the third rate culprit ambulance driver belongs to the majority community...There is no way that if he belongs to minority will do this kind of inhumane act.. the big bosses of right wing hindu community are there only to create issues with beef, love jihad and conversion..these things they do not bother..

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  • Kuchan, Kudla

    Fri, May 28 2021

    kujuma, mangaluru, Plesae don't drag religion here, Majority & Minority is just we made this... No difference between religion.. we all are same... eat sleep die all same...

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  • Gurka, mangaluru

    Fri, May 28 2021

    They came to power by selling lies and lies !! nowadays lies are liked and adored by the MAJORITARIANS as their MASTER BABARAJA THE VISHWAGURU FEND OF DOLAND sleeping on lying on the lair bed !!

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  • kujuma, mangaluru

    Fri, May 28 2021

    kuchan, when drug smuggling etc are done by a certain minority community, everyone points fingers at them saying that they are doing it..It is true also I dont say no.. LIkewise my comment also said that same thing. I bet that none of the non-hindus will do such a dastardly act..Even the bodies that were thrown in Ganga are that of majority religion..That is the respect you people have for your own kith and kin

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