Bengaluru ex-top cop’s daughter latest victim of racist attack

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Bengaluru, Dec 10, 2014: Former Lok Sabha member HT Sangliana’s daughter, Rachel, was allegedly attacked by two women in a supermarket here on Sunday. 

 

Sangliana, who hails from Mizoram and is a decorated Bengaluru supercop as well as former deputy chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities, dismissed the incident as a minor one. 

 

City police officers said as both parties haven’t filed a complaint, there are no grounds to pursue the matter which appeared to be a small altercation.

 

Rachel, 34, called the police control room when the incident threatened to go out of hand. "Rachel called 100 and by the time the cops arrived, the attackers had disappeared. We didn’t file a police complaint as she’s a young girl and it’s not a big issue," Sangliana said.

 

 

Rachel, who is married with two children, told the media the incident happened when she was standing in a queue at the supermarket. "A man came up with a shopping cart and tried to stand in front of me. I asked him to move but he didn’t budge. Instead, he made a call, probably to his wife. She came up and started speaking in Urdu. I could understand what she was saying. Then, another woman joined her and both started shouting at me saying we should go back to where we have come from," she told TOI. 

 

"After this, I turned back to her and asked her what her problem was. She started shouting that I was her problem. She pushed me and then all hell broke loose. She hit me and I hit her back as well," she added. 

 

"She started pulling my shirt and there was a scuffle. Soon, people pulled us apart. As she was being pulled back, she tried to throw ketchup bottles at me. Some people asked me to wait for some time before I left as she was waiting outside for me. Then I called 100. But the police came only after I’d left," Rachel said. 

 

"Only on reaching home did I realize there was a bruise on my chest and scalp. She had pulled off some hair. Later, I decided to let it go and not file a police complaint," she said. 

 

The other two women involved in the incident couldn’t be contacted.