PROTECTION FOR GOOD SAMARITAN
Central Government issues guidelines safeguarding those who help victims of road accident Sometime in the year 2012 , I got an invite to sign an online petition at C hange.org seeking protection for those few good S amaritans who come to the rescue of victims in a road accident, but end up being victimized at various levels. Building the narrative, the petition referred to a road accident in which a 5 year old boy namely O m G aikwad and his parents A parna and M angesh, after being hit by a bus, cried for over an hour pleading help from bystanders. The entire family, including 5 year old O m, died since none of the bystanders came forward to help them. I could see specifics relating to the incident especially name of the city where the incident occurred was not mentioned, yet I was tempted to believe since this could be anybody’s fate in any city, hence signed the petition. Image indicative of the scene at an accident site The situation has become such that wit...