HOWRAH: Upset with the poverty and hardship people face in India every day, a 26-year-old scaled the
Howrah bridge on Monday to complain to ' Ma Ganga' about it.
Arun Kumar had come from his native Buxar. Cops, firemen took almost an hour to bring him down. Later, he was sent to a hospital.
On Monday morning cops found him standing on pillar III of Howrah bridge with hands folded to offer prayers.
Kumar was a teacher at a primary school in
Bihar and had given up his job to focus on religious issues. A few constables from
Golabari police station tried to convince him but had to run for cover when Kumar started relieving himself from where he was standing.
Fire Brigade reached the spot and put up a ladder. A fireman, speaking chaste Hindi, persuaded him by promising a proper place for prayer.
Kumar got furious when he saw a hospital instead of a place for prayer like he was promised. The fireman came to the rescue again and asked him to pray for the patients.
Kumar's father
Satyanarayan Prasad, who realised his son has mental illness, took help of doctors to get him back to a normal life but his efforts were in vain.
