After visiting our friend in a hospital, we decided to go around visiting patients in the district government hospital.
By chance we entered the accident patients’ ward. Pitying their bandaged limbs and the pain they were in, we began talking to some patients. Seeing a poor villager lying on a bed, groaning with pain, we stopped to enquire about his him. While he was returning from the field on his cycle, Mangal Singh explained, he was hit from behind by two drunken bike-riders. They escaped while verbally abusing him. Since it was almost dark, Mangal could hardly recognize the youths’ faces, nor could the illiterate villager read the license plate of the bike.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of The Teenager Today.
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