Bangalore:
The daughter of a former senior police officer and Parliamentarian has alleged that she had to face racial attack while shopping at a mall in the city.
Rachel Sangliana is the daughter of former Bangalore Police Commissioner H T Sangliana, who was also a Member of Parliament. Though belonging ethnically to the Northeast, Ms Sangliana has been born and brought up in Bangalore.
Describing the incident in a Facebook post, Ms Sangliana said a woman had first passed a racial slur. When she objected, the woman and a friend of hers had attacked her together.
"I, Born & brought up in Bangalore. Racial slurs thrown at me...sure! - I've heard plenty!! Physically attacked by 1 woman & then later by the same woman along with another for
defending myself due to racial slur - That's a 1st timer!!" Ms Sangliana posted on her Facebook page on December7.
While most people watched and videotaped the incident, three girls from Nagaland, a woman working at mall and a couple of shoppers came to her rescue, she wrote.
"What has Bangalore come to? I cannot believe what happened to me today!" the Facebook post further said.
Ms Sangliana had not explained what triggered the incident. News agency Press Trust of India reported it happened when she had objected to the two women jumping queue at a supermarket on Sunday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bangalore South, BS Lokesh Kumar, has said no case has been registered as no one has come forward to file a complaint, reported PTI.
Cosmopolitan Bangalore came under a cloud after a few young people from the northeast were attacked in October. A young man and his friends were heckled and beaten up by a group who demanded that he "speak Kannada or get out".
In 2012, students and workers from northeastern states left Bangalore in droves as rumours of attacks led to panic in the three lakh-strong community.
Rachel Sangliana is the daughter of former Bangalore Police Commissioner H T Sangliana, who was also a Member of Parliament. Though belonging ethnically to the Northeast, Ms Sangliana has been born and brought up in Bangalore.
Describing the incident in a Facebook post, Ms Sangliana said a woman had first passed a racial slur. When she objected, the woman and a friend of hers had attacked her together.
"I, Born & brought up in Bangalore. Racial slurs thrown at me...sure! - I've heard plenty!! Physically attacked by 1 woman & then later by the same woman along with another for
defending myself due to racial slur - That's a 1st timer!!" Ms Sangliana posted on her Facebook page on December7.
While most people watched and videotaped the incident, three girls from Nagaland, a woman working at mall and a couple of shoppers came to her rescue, she wrote.
"What has Bangalore come to? I cannot believe what happened to me today!" the Facebook post further said.
Ms Sangliana had not explained what triggered the incident. News agency Press Trust of India reported it happened when she had objected to the two women jumping queue at a supermarket on Sunday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bangalore South, BS Lokesh Kumar, has said no case has been registered as no one has come forward to file a complaint, reported PTI.
Cosmopolitan Bangalore came under a cloud after a few young people from the northeast were attacked in October. A young man and his friends were heckled and beaten up by a group who demanded that he "speak Kannada or get out".
In 2012, students and workers from northeastern states left Bangalore in droves as rumours of attacks led to panic in the three lakh-strong community.
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