Leshpal Javalge, 29, has seen it all in just a day — a man running after a young woman with a machete, bystanders mutely watching the tamasha (melee) and the same listless spectators turning into an angry mob ready to lynch the assailant, but not before Mr. Javalge and another young man overpowered the attacker, risking their own lives.
All this happened in broad daylight at Pune’s Sadashiv Peth on Tuesday.
Mr. Javalge, a civil service aspirant, was about to climb the stairs to his study room when he heard a startling cry and saw a machete-wielding man furiously chasing a young woman.
