A bus driver and its conductor kicked and assaulted a drunk passenger who was attempting to board the vehicle in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district, with the video of the incident going viral.
The nearly two-minute disturbing video purportedly showed the passenger wobbling and appearing to be intoxicated as he stood near the entrance of the bus amid rain after approaching to board the bus. A man in a blue state transport uniform, appearing to be the driver, is then seen kicking the passenger in the chest outside the bus, causing him to fall onto the road. “The man was drunk, and that’s why the driver and conductor had kicked him. Whatever it is, the crew ought to have handed over the man to the police. They shouldn’t have assaulted him. No case has been registered yet, the police added.
This happened at the Kangeyam bus stand,” Tiruppur police told NDTV. A senior officer of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation in Coimbatore told NDTV, “We have called for an enquiry and based on the report appropriate action will indeed be taken.
