Women thrashed for not giving chanda

On the 4th day of Navratri, while the revel ers across city were busy upping thefes tive spirit, a group of goons at Vadaj was busy displaying their strengthto collect chanda (donation) by bashing two women. The women -Asha Dayama (32)and Sarla Kishori Tavar (40) -were beaten up by local goons for denying to payRs-5,000 as Navratri chanda.

At around 12.30pm on Friday, Kashinath Patel, a goon running bootlegging business, went to the duo's house along with 10 others to collect chanda. On refusal to pay, they allegedly began hitting them. However, Tavar claimed, “Despite paying chanda twice, they demanded Rs-5,000 for Navratri. When I refused, they started arguing and began trashing me. When I fell down, they started kicking me in my stomach. For help, I dialed 100, and afraid of cops they fled away.“

Following this, both the women went to Vadaj police station. However, the police allegedly refused to lodge their complaint initially. “We kept waiting for two hours and then finally the cops lodged our complaint,“ said Asha.

As soon as the two returned home from police station at around 2.30pm, they witnessed around 100 people surrounding their house and banging the doors. They even damaged their scooty and threatened to throw acid on them.Scared Asha and Sarla had to spend eight hours in captivity within their home. With no one to help, the two began screaming of police's arrival, hearing which the group fled away.