Mohammed Mukarram Pasha enjoyed, above all other things, the thrill of racing and performing stunts on his motorbike. Unfortunately, he also believed in attempting to get away, as anyone else would, when the cops came for him.
Last night, 19 year old Mukarram enjoyed a bout of wheelies with his friends at the NICE peripheral roads and was returning home when his continual stunts caught the attention of the traffic cops. On trying to stop him, Mukarram chose to flee and reached ASC Circle near Trinity church at around 1:30am. Here, Mukarram met Inspector Gopal Rao who had barricaded the road and was waiting to apprehend Mukarram, having already received information about the boy’s daredevil racing. The bike skidded and Mukarram and his friend fled the place; Mukarram jumped into the military campus and found himself in the Flag Staff House, HAL Airport Road.
Mukarram managed to climb up to the terrace of the house and make calls to family and friends before he tried to escape again. Mukarram was shot at by armed guards after he ignored their warning calls, some time before his cousin reached the place. Mukarram was confirmed dead by three gunshot wounds on the way to St. Philomena’s Hospital.
Interestingly, the sentries who fired the shots stated that their suspicions were raised from the fact that the boy ignored their warning and spoke in Urdu. It appears that tension is still running high amongst all following the recent incident at Bombay.
Mukarram was a first year B.Com student at Baldwin’s Methodist College and is well known amongst his peers as an ace drag racer. The shooting of such a young boy merely for fleeing from traffic cops after doing wheelies has resulted in rage amongst youngsters who feel the situation could have been better handled.
Via: ExpressBuzz
Posted by Anna on December 29, 2008 in News + Politics · 7 Comments
Handled better????? He trespassed army territory. Anybody with half a brain knows that can lead to death. He should have surrendered to the cops instead of thinking he is some sort of a super hero. Just because he managed to escape the cops doesn’t mean he can make a fool of our army too. He got what he deserved. I hope other drag racers learn from this. Travel to designated racing zones and leave the public roads in peace. Dangerous driving is a crime.
Nobody here is to blame except Mukarram. It may sound insensitive, but he got what he deserved. You have to think of these things with a straight head. Nobody cannot think of themselves as a superhero and above the law. If you intend to break the law, you should also be strong enough to handle the consequences of such actions and not run like a child.
Khalid, if the boy had spoken a Dravidian language he wouldn’t have been shot dead. What would you say about that. Isn’t this an example of ethnic profiling? Now I must think twice when I speak Hindi in Bangalore (I can’t speak the local language) for that may arouse suspicions. And they could have shot his leg and not abdomen. My heart goes out to the boy’s family and friends.
Khalid, I think you know it yourself that you are not just being insensitive but rather inhuman to talk about a dead kid like that.
You are justifying the death of a teenage boy and praising the actions of the guards just because it was army territory? Did you not notice that what aroused the guards’ suspicions was not just Mukarram’s ignorance of the warning but also the fact that he spoke Urdu? Or have you choosen to ignore that teensy bit? Certainly, the incident could have been HANDLED BETTER. The army has made a fool of themselves by resorting to murdering a boy instead of giving chase further, which they could have done since it was SIX trained guards against ONE boy on foot. The army’s job is to ‘protect and defend’, not to prove to civilians that they are Gods and should be treated so.
It is also mighty easy to think about the best ways to do something when we are not in real danger. It becomes a completely different matter when our heart is racing and the blood is pounding in our ears.
what army personnel done is correct. the boy deserve that only.
You’re right, Vinayak! He deserved to be shot to death. After all, he should have known that that the Army is trained to kill at the sight of any moving object without thinking..
there is no place in Bangalore to do stunts so we go to mg road to practice ….there also there is so much cops so we went to nice road there also so many cops.There are more over 4 to 5000 saunters in bangalore …we will not leave our wheelie….i have one request for the government to give any place for us in Bangalore..this is Wat we need.if the government doesn’t give us place there will be so many mukkarams dead daily..