Four youths have been arrested in connection with a molestation case that occurred on New Year's Eve. CCTV footage of two men approaching a girl and molesting her before throwing her against the ground did the rounds on the internet helping the police catch the culprits. It wasn't a good start of the new year for India as several cases of molestation shone bright on the first day of 2017.
One of the worst cases is the mass molestation incident that occurred in Bengaluru's MG Road area. The past week has been rather disturbing, especially for females across the country, even more so for the media, who despite talking to victims, could not produce the evidence. Women screamed "mass molestation" as rowdies and hooligans took to the roads and decided to grope and grab women. How ironical for the act of the tawdry acts to have been carried out on a street named after Mahatma Gandhi.
Despite elaborate arrangements, children were scared, women were defiled and humilated, and males had a tough time protecting their female friends from unruly men. The city police accounts for 1500 policemen who were deployed in the area to ensure an incident-free New Year. How poorly they failed. Louts who gathered in the area in the garb of revellers soon began molesting, and passing lewd comments on women on the streets, forcing some of them to flee with their shoes in their hands, literally.
Photojournalists and other reporters who were on the venue to capture the ball dropping celebrations became first hand witnesses of the brazen attacks in the presence of security personnel. A week later, while no complaints have been registered, the police have arrested a handful of men in the case. It wasn't just Bengaluru. Similar cases were reported in New Delhi, Gurgaon, and Mumbai. The Media blamed the police, politicians blamed women. For a country that likes to be refered to as Bharat Maata, we sure haven't the faintest idea on how to treat our daughters.
