New Delhi: 40-year-old Matibool lay bleeding for over an hour after being hit by a tempo. No one tried to help; the one man who stopped is seen on CCTV footage picking up his mobile phone and walking off.
Matibool, an e-rickshaw driver, bled out on a road in west Delhi’s Subhash Nagar before policemen took him to a hospital just half a km away.
CCTV images chronicle the staggering lack of compassion often ascribed to the capital city.
Matibool, a father of four who worked two jobs, was on his way home around 5.30 am after an overnight shift when the three-wheeler, speeding on the deserted road, rammed him.
He hit a pole and collapsed.
The driver is seen on camera approaching him but turning away quickly, looking up and down the road, checking his phone and then driving off after making sure that his victim is alive.
In the moments afterwards that stretched to an excruciating 90 minutes, several people are seen walking past the dying man on the road.
Then a man stops a rickshaw and walks towards the prone figure. Finally, some help – it appears in the video. Until this man walks right by, picks up Matibool’s mobile phone and returns to the rickshaw.
