Pune Man Thrashed Female Sweeper : This Is How Cultured And Modern Society Looks Like?

A video from Pune is going viral in which a man can be seen thrashing a female sweeper insanely who worked at his store. The incident was caught on CCTV footage. The employer misbehaved because the woman asked him to pay her the pending salary for the last three months.

The incident reportedly happened in Pune's Akurdi region in a store that was owned and operated by 23-year-old Arshad Kamal Khan and his brother. The 42-year-old female sweeper, employed by the accused's brother, had not received her three months' pending salary and went to ask about it. When she reached the store and told him about her pending salary. He refused and soon they got into a heated argument. In the CCTV footage, the woman can be seen picking up a broom and approaching Khan who tries to intimidate her by standing face-to-face with her.

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Female Sweeper Thrashed By Employer

Khan proceeds to brutally punch the woman's face and stomach multiple times making her bleed and kneel on the ground. The on-lookers are shocked and try to console the woman but they seem to say nothing to Khan. He reportedly hurled casteist slurs towards the woman who reportedly belonged to Scheduled Tribe. FIR has been filed against Khan under the Prevention of Atrocities Act of the Indian Penal Code in the Nigdi police station and the accused has been arrested.

The case is big slap in the face of the society that calls itself advanced and cultured. A society that preaches of the technological advancement, foreign reach and space missions has people who have lost basic sense of humanity and are down to thrash anyone in a supposed fit of anger. There are frequent cases of atrocities with people who work supposedly menial jobs like deliver drivers, sweepers, cleaners etc. People do not consider them human and torture them in all ways possible, whether physically, mentally or financially.

People know that their daily income decides whether their family eats or not, yet people like Khan first delay their salaries and then act as if they are obliging them by hiring them. No matter what the job is, they get paid for their hard work and if you will not pay them, someone else will. It is a compensation in exchange for their services and not alms that you could deny it.

It is saddening to see how a 23-year-old grown man did not hesitate to punch a 42-year-old woman brutally. There is a lot of difference between his punches and her blows yet he did not care that she was an elder and was just there to ask for her hard-earned money. That's how this generation is treating elders, no matter what job a person does or where they come from, respecting elders is a big part of Indian culture. Yet we have restricted it to respecting elders who are rich and profitable.

Cases such as this and physical abuse of delivery drivers and house help make us rethink whether we should call ourselves cultures or not. Cultures and modern are those who know how to respect people despite their profession and know how to lift others below them, not demean them just because they can't control their emotions and anger.