Click to play videoMumbai: This New Year’s eve, some men in Mumbai brought the city to shame again.
In a shocking repeat of last year’s incident at the Gateway of India, a mob of over 60 men molested two women.
Two couples suddenly found themselves in the centre of a nightmare when the two girls were molested by the mob. Their ordeal was caught by two local photographers on film.
Sequence of events
- The two couples began walking to Juhu Beach after leaving the JW Marriot hotel at 0145 hrs IST.
- A large mob teased the women till one of them reacted and swore back.
- The mob became bigger and closed in trapping the girls and pounced on them.
- A man in a white shirt tore off one girl's dress while another wearing a blue shirt led the assault with dozens joining in when the women fell to the ground.
“We saw them, they were helpless,” say the photographers.
However, what is more shocking is the way the buck is being passed with the Juhu PS trying to push the case onto the neighbouring Santa Cruz PS where an FIR against unknown persons was finally lodged on Wednesday afternoon
Senior police inspector, Amarjeet declined to speak on camera saying, “You take permission from my Joint Commissioner, I will speak.”
Last New Year's eve, an NRI girl was nearly stripped and molested at the Gateway of India. But even after an identical incident, Mumbai's top cop's reaction could not be more callous.
"Don't blow it out of proportion, have a rational look and don't make a mountain of a molehill,” says Police Commissioner, DN Jadhav.
“We cannot make more security arrangements. We don’t promise and I don’t promise. It happens every year and it can happen here also,” adds Jadhav.
And it is these casual words coming from the keepers of the law which will not only shock women but also probably ensure that the perpetrators of such crimes against women manage to get away every time.
(With inputs from Raksha Shetty and Toral Varia)
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