Attacked by the crowd, kidnapped and tied to a mobile phone tower pole. An operator was attacked by a group of residents of an Indian village in the state of Uttar Pradesh, enraged by the failure of the 5G line.
Attacked and tied to a post
The episode occurred last week, Thursday 10 September, but only in the last few hours did the Fatehpur police publish images and updates on the case on social media: six people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. According to local media reports, the victim of the attack is Aditya Bhan Singh, an operator who had been sent to the site to try to understand the origin of the outage.
Once he arrived, the man found a blockade of residents who demanded the immediate restoration of the connection, threatening not to let him leave. Shortly afterwards the crowd turned from words to deeds, tying the operator with a rope to an antenna pylon. According to the inhabitants, the failures of the 5G line have been going on for over two years and no intervention carried out so far has helped.
Freed by the police
The police then intervened to free the man, as also explained in a statement: “The villagers said that the area has suffered from poor mobile connectivity, particularly regarding 5G services, for almost two years, despite the installation of a private telecommunications antenna. Residents are angry because they say they have paid expensive subscriptions for 5G services without any improvement in service.”
The technician, now in shock, had only been employed by the telephone company for three months, it was the first time he had gone to inspect that repeater and he did not know of the problems recorded previously. On Friday the police identified and arrested six people aged between 21 and 36, who were then released on bail pending trial.