New Delhi, March 9: More shocking that the daylight murder of Delhi University student Radhika Tanwar on a footbridge was that not a single person came forward to help her, when she fell to the bullets of her assassin. There were more than hundred people on the foot-overbridge at Satya Niketan in South Delhi, but no one came forward to her help, says an Indian Express report.
Radhika Tanwar, the second-year-student of Ram Lal Anand College, lay bleeding on the ramp, and her friends who were accompanying her, fled from the scene. It was left to a passerby, Ajit Singh, to call the police. “I was on the escalator when I heard a loud noise. A boy who claimed to be the girl's friend stood near
her. I asked the friend to help me take her down from the foot-overbridge, but he did not budge,” said Ajit Singh.
A constable, Sanoj Singh, who received the police control room call at 10.20 am, took her in an auto-rickshaw to Safdarjung Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival. “There was no one near her. Everyone decided to be mute spectators. It was Constable Sanoj Singh who rushed her to hospital,” said H G S Dhaliwal, DCP
(South).
Singh, who was the only one to make a PCR call, said he also called the college authorities after he found the girl's identity card in her bag. “Till the time the constable came, I kept persuading people to take her to hospital, her friends including two girls, just vanished from the scene,” said Singh (31), a private detective.
Aditya, one of her friends accompanying her, was picked by police for questioning from his home in West Delhi, says the Express report.
