A young man whose hands were chopped off after he failed to repay a loan languishes on the floor of a government hospital here, frightened and worried about his life ahead while police are yet to take action against his attackers more than a week after the incident.
Ram Sagar Chandravanshi (21), belonging to an extreme backward caste, has not been even given a bed at the Patna Medical College and Hospital where he has been lying for the past many days.
Narrating his tale of horror, Chandravanshi said he owed a Rs 300 debt to a powerful man in Kodra village. “When I expressed my inability to repay the debt and requested them to give me some more time, they ordered me to work for a couple of contractors in lieu of the Rs 300 that I owed. But when I refused, it angered them so much that they first beat me badly and started hitting my hands with an axe, chopping them off,” he said.
Chandravanshi is now worried about sustaining himself ahead. “How I will earn my livelihood as my hands have been chopped off and there is little hope for proper treatment at this government hospital,” said Chandravanshi.
His family members said that the police have not taken any action in the case. “No arrest has been made, the accused threatening our family members to withdraw the police case,” Chandravanshi’s newly-wedded wife Buchchi Devi said. She said police were behaving as though nothing has happened.
When contacted, Deputy Inspector General (Magadh range) NH Khan said he will order district police to record Chandravanshi’s statement and investigate the case.
—Agencies