65-year-old Krishna Kumar who came into limelight after his old typewriter was broken by a cop in Uttar Pradesh is not at peace even after the loss was compensated on the orders from none other than Cheif Minister of UP. He suspect that there are few people who want to silence him forever.
“I am receiving threat calls from morning to evening. Someone called me on Monday noon and asked me to get ready to face the consequence for whatever I am doing. I asked what I am doing. He said, ‘You know very well’”, Kumar said.
Kumar always put his typewriter on a table and sat on a broken plastic chair at the rear gate of the General Post Office from 10am to 5pm every day and earns between Rs 100 and Rs 200 a day by typing documents for people, mostly students.
But three days ago, Pradeep Kumar, a sub-inspector, pushed him away and damaged his typewriter because someone with a VIP tag was about to pass the road. The police officer’s act was shot by a passerby on a mobile phone and subsequently posted on social media.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav noticed it and suspended the police officer. He then sent District Magistrate Raj Shekhar and Rajesh Kumar Pandey to gift the old man a new typewriter. A sense of empathy also motivated the chief minister to announce compensation of Rs 1 lakh to Kumar.
But allegedly, the suspended officer doesn’t want to sit idle and is out for revenge.
“Maybe they will kill me. I fear death and want to do my work for a few more years before death comes naturally to me,” Kumar told media.
“Whatever I suffered happens to many people here every day. But I got the support of the social media when a police officer attacked me publicly and damaged my typewriter. Now, someone wants to kill me because the police officer has been suspended,” he added.
People had never heard Kumar speak so much in the past. He keeps talking ever since receiving threat calls, as if he wants to pour out overflowing feelings and emotions which have existed in his heart for decades.
“The only respite is that I am getting phone calls from Canada, USA, Chandigarh and Gujarat. They have sympathy with me,” the typist said.