Updated On: 08 January, 2025 08:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
SoBo senior struggles through debilitating pain after leg slips into gutter grate as spokes break; ensures repair after determined follow-up

Dina Desai’s injured leg
A little over a month ago on December 4, 2024 Dina Desai stepped out of her car at Nana Chowk to buy medicines from a pharmacy. “My driver dropped me off outside the pharmacy, moving ahead to find parking space. I put my leg on what I took to be a grated gutter. To my horror, my left leg went all the way up to my thigh into the gutter grate as two spokes of this grate broke,” said Desai from her Malabar Hill home.
Desai, 73, cried out for help as her bag, mobile phone scattered on the road. She said, “I started shouting: ‘help, help me’ as I fell and was marooned in the gutter space. I could hardly comprehend what happened. I had nearly blacked out from the fear and panic.” With her driver out of sight as he had moved ahead to find a parking space, passersby heard Desai’s cries for help.