A Bangladeshi cricket fan had to be checked in at a hospital after feeling “unwell” while attending the second Test match between India and Bangladesh looking like a spectator who had done more than just watch and had taken part in some altercation which in the beginning was suspected to be a case of heckling after he had indicated that he had been involved in some physical quarrel.
Self-designated diehard Webel, clad in tiger suit and seen forever at his team matches, was in the gallery C and had to be escorted away from the curve and outside the arena sighting a ‘bad condition’.
Speaking to the media for the first time, Roby warmly showed a abdomen area that had swelled brimming with pain and so did news editors. Yet, in a statement made from his hospital room later, he just asserted that he got sick and sought necessary help from the local authorities.
“I fainted so the police brought me to the hospital. I am feeling better now. My name is Roby I am from Bangladesh,” said the petitioner in a brief video recording.
Roby’s immediate response was that medical attention was afforded to him without delay and he maintained that he had not been beaten up as was reported in the initial reports concerning the incident, Abhishek Pandey, ACP (Kalyanpur) said.
“During the Test match held between India and Bangladesh, one of the spectators, Tiger by name, happened to collapse suddenly,” the officer said.
“He was ill, and the police took him aside and brutalised him. They also sent him to the medical team. Integration officer is telling me that he is ok and that a liaisson officer has been assigned to him just in case he needs some.”
“There were some reports of assault but these are baseless, no such incident happened with him. There may be a suspicion haw some amount of fall occurred, this is what we have been able to gather,” he said.
Before this a UPCA official said that to Roby she felt that it was very difficult for him to discriminate. Although Angiras came third that day – clearly as a response, Firoz Azmat’s clumsy All-India boycott – he writes ‘thank you for restoring order’.
“At that time, he was wearing a harness into the stands. As he was getting out of the stands, he was cursing in pain and approximated fainting. He was offered a chair to which he was a Fall,” said the official.
The day one of the Test was over prematurely on account of the rain with the visitors being 107/3. Bangladesh lost the first two test matches. The first test match was won by an innings and 280 runs.
