Six girls from Northeast in Bangalore were racially abused & asked to vacate their premises but was saved by the timely intervention of MP Shobha Karandlje
As the nation faces the imminent rise in COVID-19 cases, the racist attacks against people belonging from the North-eastern part of India are still coming to the fore.
In one such incident which occurred on Monday night (May 11, 12:20 am) six girls who worked in the hospitality department in Bangalore, were asked to vacate their premises by police officials and that too right after a man from their neighbourhood infringed on their private space by forcibly entering the house to taking videos.
The girls had just shifted to a new room as they were forced out of their earlier apartment. This after the company they were working for refused to pay rent. A mutual friend of one of the girls helped them find a new place to stay.
Things already took a turn for the worse when some of the neighbours of the apartment they had shifted to warned them not to go outside due to their “Chinese looks” and that some other neighbours might feel angry. Helpless and out of their place the girls had no choice but to adhere to these norms and sent only one girl who belongs from a Bengali community from Assam (hence the “non-Chinese” look) to buy groceries.
One of the girls took to Facebook to highlight their ordeal, “It was 12:20 am on 11/5/2020 almost all of us are asleep, we started hearing someone knocking the door, we felt scared and stared through the window and saw police officials. They suspected that we were suffering from Corona,” stated in a post by one of the girls. However, the nightmare did not just end there as a man came inside the house where some of the girls were still dressing up took videos as a “proof.” The police officials also asked them to vacate the room and said to go back to their old rooms. “Police start beating the person who knows our friend who referred us to the room. Police even call house owner and start asking questions and scolding him, they even beat him,” the post continued.
