HYDERABAD: A woman, allegedly in an inebriated condition, attacked a TGSRTC bus with a liquor bottle and damaged its rear windshield when the vehicle did not stop for her at Vidya Nagar on Thursday evening. When passengers and the woman conductor caught her, the woman, Begum, who could be in mid-50s, hurled a snake, which she was carrying in her bag, at the conductor. While the reptile slithered away and disappeared, the conductor escaped unhurt in the incident.
Expressing shock over the incident, TGSRTC MD VC Sajjanar said that it was sad to see such incidents and urged passengers to refrain from such attacks on RTC employees and properties. "Such acts will not be tolerated and strict action will be taken with the help of police," Sajjanar said.
Nallakunta police said the bus headed for Dilsukhnagar had just crossed Vidya Nagar bus stop, located near NCC X roads, when the woman waved her hand to stop it. As there was a turning, the bus driver went ahead and slowed down.
In this meantime, the woman hurled a liquor bottle at the bus, and the vehicle stopped. Passengers and the woman conductor rushed and caught the woman. "I was speaking to her, asking why she attacked the bus, and she suddenly pulled out a snake from her bag and threw it at me. Everybody there ran away," the conductor told the media.
Nallakunta SHO Jagadeeswar Rao said a case was registered against the woman.
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