Bengaluru: Security cameras recorded the egregiousness of it all - what she went through in Bengaluru is every woman's nightmare.
She can be seen walking on the road when two men on a scooter approach her. As they get closer, she breaks into a run. One of the men on the scooter lunges towards her. He then gropes and molests her while she fights back. Seconds later, he throws her hard onto the ground. As the woman picks herself up, the men race away. Eyewitnesses do nothing. Not to stop the men, not to help the woman get up off the ground.
The next day, photographs would emerge of women being molested and stalked in the heart of the city on New Year's Eve at a public celebration on the famous MG Road. There, too, nobody tried to stop the drunk men who chased the women, some of them breaking down on camera in what used to be considered one of the country's safest cities for women.
The mass molestations in the heart of Bengaluru took place a few hours before the young woman heading home was attacked. She had taken an auto home and was walking the final stretch to her house when she was assaulted.
The cameras that filmed her ordeal were installed at a house in East Bengaluru. The owners provided the footage to the media and the police who have registered a case. Four suspects were detained today, police said.
"A special team has been formed to investigate the incident and nab the culprits at the earliest. As the victim did not file a complaint so far, we are trying to find her in the area and record evidence," senior police officer Hemant Nimbalkar told news agency IANS.
Bengaluru's Night of Shame - December 31 - captured by multiple cameras in all its horror - has outraged the country, in part because of the remarks of Home Minister G Parameshwara, who is responsible for policing. "These things do happen," he said about the women who were subjected to physical abuse. After furious calls for his resignation and a summons from the country's top women's rights body to explain his misogynistic remarks, he said he had been misquoted and misunderstood.
She can be seen walking on the road when two men on a scooter approach her. As they get closer, she breaks into a run. One of the men on the scooter lunges towards her. He then gropes and molests her while she fights back. Seconds later, he throws her hard onto the ground. As the woman picks herself up, the men race away. Eyewitnesses do nothing. Not to stop the men, not to help the woman get up off the ground.
The woman was molested just as she was walking to her home in Bengaluru on New Year's Eve.
One of the two men leapt at the woman from a scooter in Bengaluru on New Year's eve.
"A special team has been formed to investigate the incident and nab the culprits at the earliest. As the victim did not file a complaint so far, we are trying to find her in the area and record evidence," senior police officer Hemant Nimbalkar told news agency IANS.
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Several women approached police in Bengaluru complaining hooligans had molested them on New Year's Eve.
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