Mumbai:
A software engineer from Kharghar was beaten up by two for raising his voice against eve teasing on Wednesday. Shankar Iyer (name changed on request), a 36-year-old resident of Spaghetti, who works in a private firm at Andheri was coming back home in a ST bus which he boarded from Mankhurd when he found two men outraging the modesty of a woman in the over crowded bus.
The woman raised her voice after which Iyer also joined her and told the duo that they better stand properly.
"He told them that tomorrow even their mothers or sisters might travel in the bus facing such problem so they shouldn't be doing anything as such," said Iyer's wife who is a teacher in Dadar.
Iyer, who had to get down at Hiranandani stop where he had parked his two-wheeler, also missed his stop due to the argument. He instead got down at Spaghetti stop and decided to take an auto to Hiranandani stop. After he got down, the duo with whom he had an argument, also got down from the bus.
"The duo later started collecting crowd saying that my husband was a South Indian and he had outraged the modesty of a Maharashtrain woman in the bus. Saying so, they attacked my husband and started beating. Somehow, he managed to get rid of them, got into an auto and came home. I immediately took him to police station after getting first aid done and registered an offence. I know that police cannot do anything in this case because nobody knows who the duo was but it was necessary for the issue to be highlighted. My husband has always been interfering in such issues wherein a woman is ill-treated. This is for the first time he witnessed such an experience. We have been in this state for long time and we consider this as our own but instead he got beaten up for helping a woman," Iyer's wife said.
"The family had approached us and we have registered the complaint. In such cases it is difficult to take any action since there is no way to get any details of the people who attacked him," an official from Kharghar Police Station said.
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