A debt-ridden man’s crazy idea of wearing a burqa to avoid being seen by money lenders in Dharavi, where he went to meet his brother, nearly got him lynched. It was thanks to an assistant police inspector who saw people beating him up and intervened, also calling the Shahu Nagar police who arrived within a few minutes, that he escaped.

On September 29 around 12 noon, Assistant Police Inspector Amol Chavhan who was en route home saw few people beating up someone at 60 feet road, Dharavi. He rushed towards the crowd to find a man wearing burqa was being beaten up by pedestrians and locals. API Chavhan immediately informed the Shahu Nagar police. He managed to stop the man from being beaten up further and when the police van arrived, he was taken to the BMC-run Sion Hospital and treated for a minor head injury. After treatment the man was taken to Shahu Nagar police station.