Chennai: A girl employed in a private investment banking firm was assailed late on Wednesday night by a couple in Choolaimedu while she was leaving after feeding a couple of street dogs in Choolaimedu.
The couple who held her accountable for the stray dog menace involved her in an altercation during which they also tried to push her down from the first floor.
Savithra Manoharan, who loves to feed stray dogs in the locality, was leaving when the male started complaining about the accretion in stray dog menace since she began feeding them. Savithra retorted saying she was not the appropriate person to complain to about the menace of strays and that the Corporation of Chennai would be the apt body to deal with those sort of complaints.
The suspect, who flexed his muscles, warned Savithra of dire consequences if her act recurred in that street, besides making male chauvinist comments with his wife acting in chorus and they were joined by an elderly man too. The wife allegedly made a sweeping statement that Savithra was into drugs.
Savithra responded to the trio trying to talk sense into them about gender sensitivity and her free will to feed dogs. The suspect dared Savithra to come up to him and vowed to teach her a lesson if she did. Savithra went to the first floor corridor where the suspect dragged her by her hair and banged her head on the wall. Before that, he stripped Savithra of her gym jacket and her helmet.
The couple also tried to push Savithra over the railing from the first floor and Savithra had to wriggle out of their clutches to save herself. The parting shot by the suspect was, “Catch hold of her and lock her inside, let me show her who I am”.
Savithra who suffered concussions in the head and cut injuries in both cheeks and lips was admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) and is kept under observation.
A complaint has been lodged with Choolaimedu Police who blamed the girl for having precipitated the situation by trespassing into the couple’s premises while the girl maintained that she entered the apartment complex to find the door number before lodging a complaint.
