Indians Punishing Indians After Pulwama Attack!

Bengaluru: Indians have turned against Indians, cried numerous twitterratties after some people on Friday turned their ire against the Karachi bakery and cafe outlet in Bengaluru upset over the Pulwama terror attack.

On Friday, a mob of unidentified people gathered outside the Karachi Bakery outlet in Indiranagar and demanded the shop remove its signboard. In the end, they seem to have managed to get the word ‘Karachi’ covered with a cloth. An Indian flag has also been hung on the front window on top of the signboard.

Name seems to matter a lot and Khanchand Ramnani family has found it out the hard way.

But who is Khanchand Ramnani?

Karachi bakery is famous for its cookies and other baked savouries and people who have visited its outlets including the writer of this article would vouch for it. Soon after partition, Khanchand Ramnani of the Sindh-Hindu family migrated to India and found refuge in imperial Deccan.

The Khanchand Ramnani family established Karachi bakery near the historic Mozamjahi market at Hyderabad in 1952. Since then the shop has etched a place in people’s heart and has spread out to other cities as well.

Karachi Bakery outlet at the airports are a must visit for travellers flying out to meet their families or loved ones.

But the name brought in all the trouble for Ramnanis’.

Social media was flooded with messages of outrage and condemnation after the agitating lot demanded to close the outlet. Some media followers even targetted the right-wing elements for creating a war hysteria like situation.

 

According to a report in Scroll.com, the Bengaluru (East) Police Control Room confirmed that they had indeed received a distress call from Indiranagar area around the time of the mob incident but refused to divulge further details.