Desolation rent the air at Vydehi Superspeciality Hospital on Vittal Mallya Road as the wail of an inconsolable mother echoed through its corridors: “Chinnu, Chinnu, get up. Your mamma has come, let’s go home...”
Bhoomik, a college student, and about 10 of his friends had gone to the Chinnaswamy Stadium to watch Rajat Patidar and his men do their lap of victory. As they jostled in a mad rush to enter the stadium, Bhoomik was separated from his friends. It was the last time they saw him alive.
“We don’t know what happened, but when we found him, he was lying there, clothes torn,” said one of his friends. “We asked police for help, but they hesitated. Finally, they took us in a police jeep. All along the way to the hospital we tried to revive him by giving him CPR and mouth-tomouth resuscitation. The police dropped us at the hospital and left.”
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His parents were contacted, and they rushed to the hospital. Bhoomik’s mother believes her only son may have survived had there been proper medical facilities on-site. His father, while comforting his wife, asked, “Why did this happen to my son? If he had told me this morning that he would be going to the stadium, I would not have allowed him to go. Though 21, we looked after him like a baby. He was studious and dreamt of pursuing higher studies. He never hurt anybody but look at what has happened to him.”
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