Bharati Vidyapeeth

Law College Road

Rachet

Nigeria

BBA

Sassoon General Hospital

Mahesh Atpatkar

Vikas Nagole

Pratibha Joshi

Kothrud

Joshi

Sassoon

A Nigerian student went on a rampage atfor two long hours on Friday — shattering car windows, beating up autorickshaw drivers and even making obscene gestures at women in a PMPML bus passing through the area — much to the horror of residents and commuters alike, till he was tied to a pole nearby and beaten up by an angry mob, before calling the police.The youth has been identified as Bunduki Salimafrom. He is a student of Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune — International Cell, in his third year of Bachelors in Business Administration (). After primary investigations, the cops found him to be under the influence of drugs and he was suspected to be mentally ill. So, he was finally taken toin an ambulance for treatment.It all started around 4 pm, when Rachet was walking through the Law College Road footpath, near the Nirmette Furniture Showroom. All of a sudden, he started shouting, took off his clothes and started dancing and jumping onto the vehicles., an employee of the furniture shop who witnessed this episode, told Mirror, “This guy was first standing calmly in front of our furniture shop. When I noticed him for the first time, he was speaking to himself. Then suddenly, he took out his cellphone from his pocket and threw it to the ground. Then, he began taking off his clothes and shouting something in English. As there is a traffic signal ahead on this road, vehicles had stopped at the red light. He first broke the front glass of a Mercedes and subsequently hit two other cars. After that, he attacked a couple of autorickshaw drivers, who hit him while trying to defend themselves.”By this time, a huge crowd had begun gathering, and people tried to catch hold of him as he was attacking people and damaging vehicles on the road. “When he entered a PMPML bus naked, in which the majority of passengers were women, I took a wooden stick and, along with the others, started beating him. He was very violent; his eyes had turned red. We were a group of 10-15 people, but we couldn’t hold on to him. He was beating all of us with his bare hands and abusing us,” Atpatkar added., another passerby who was beaten up and his shirt torn by Rachet, shared, “I was passing through this road on my bike and was waiting for the traffic light to turn green, when suddenly this guy came near me and started beating me up. I fell down, so he pulled my shirt and even bit me. So, to defend myself, even I started returning the blows along with the other public gathered there. Then, someone called the police for help. For around 25-30 minutes, till the police arrived, a huge mob was running behind him to catch him. Finally, we managed to get hold of him and tied him to an iron pole on the footpath, after which the police came to take him into custody.”When Mirror tried to speak to Rachet, he only said, “I want to kneel down and pray to God. I want to go to Baner, and please allow me to wear my clothes.”Meanwhile, this fiasco had resulted in a traffic snarl along Law College Road for around an hour. Beat marshals, traffic policemen along with senior police inspector, in-charge oftraffic police division, rushed to the spot. The policemen dispersed the crowd and began monitoring the traffic to ease the congestion.told Mirror, “He is a Nigerian national, who has come to Pune for his studies. According to our primary investigation, he was heavily under the influence of drugs, owing to which he got violent. Also, it seems that he has some psychological problem; he was saying irrelevant things and attacking other people around him. So, we called up a government ambulance and sent him tohospital for a check-up.”