KOLKATA: The trashing of a tender couple for "public display of affection and obscene behaviour" on a Metro educate evoked sharp response from youths, with "Hok Alingan (Let There Be Hugging)" groups amassing on Metro stations on Wednesday. Neither the young couple might be tracked nor was any FIR lodged in the case until past due on Wednesday.
A video of ethical policing incident which went viral on social media caused Metro Railway to convene a press conference to provide an explanation for its stand on a social issue. Metro Railway common supervisor Ajay Vijayvargiya stated, "We scrutinized the CCTV footage but couldn't find anything concrete. We couldn't determine what happened and who were involved."
He, however, admitted that CCTV surveillance at the Metro station was insufficient.
Metro officers handed the greenback on police claiming the incident to be a law and order issue, while police stated they might do little in the absence of any formal complaint.
"It (moral policing) will become acceptable behaviour if we don't protest. Couples tend to stand in close proximity in crowded Metro coaches. Ask any woman travelling in the Metro during office hours and they will narrate how they have been shoved, groped or pinched," school student Anuradha Jana, who was available in the market to voice her anger, stated.
Witnesses to the Monday's episode recalled how the couple travelling by a Dum Dum-bound late-evening educate had been confused by a section of commuters for status too shut to each other, then pushed out of the educate at Dum Dum station and thrashed until some other commuters rescued them.
"The young man and woman were standing close to each other when an elderly man commented aloud that the way they were standing was inappropriate. The young man retorted, prompting others to join in. Soon, invectives were being hurled at the couple. Someone commented that they should go to a pub on Park Street. Another person made a reference to the bedroom. And, when the train stopped at Dum Dum, the couple were pushed out on to the platform and beaten up by middle-aged and elderly passengers," recalled a passenger.
"A young couple embraced in Kolkata Metro. It made a bunch of frustrated old losers angry. They beat them up. Scenes of hatred are allowed. Scenes of love are considered obscene," tweeted author Tasleema Nasreen, who herself was ousted from town a few years ago.
A video of ethical policing incident which went viral on social media caused Metro Railway to convene a press conference to provide an explanation for its stand on a social issue. Metro Railway common supervisor Ajay Vijayvargiya stated, "We scrutinized the CCTV footage but couldn't find anything concrete. We couldn't determine what happened and who were involved."
He, however, admitted that CCTV surveillance at the Metro station was insufficient.
Metro officers handed the greenback on police claiming the incident to be a law and order issue, while police stated they might do little in the absence of any formal complaint.
"It (moral policing) will become acceptable behaviour if we don't protest. Couples tend to stand in close proximity in crowded Metro coaches. Ask any woman travelling in the Metro during office hours and they will narrate how they have been shoved, groped or pinched," school student Anuradha Jana, who was available in the market to voice her anger, stated.
Witnesses to the Monday's episode recalled how the couple travelling by a Dum Dum-bound late-evening educate had been confused by a section of commuters for status too shut to each other, then pushed out of the educate at Dum Dum station and thrashed until some other commuters rescued them.
"The young man and woman were standing close to each other when an elderly man commented aloud that the way they were standing was inappropriate. The young man retorted, prompting others to join in. Soon, invectives were being hurled at the couple. Someone commented that they should go to a pub on Park Street. Another person made a reference to the bedroom. And, when the train stopped at Dum Dum, the couple were pushed out on to the platform and beaten up by middle-aged and elderly passengers," recalled a passenger.
"A young couple embraced in Kolkata Metro. It made a bunch of frustrated old losers angry. They beat them up. Scenes of hatred are allowed. Scenes of love are considered obscene," tweeted author Tasleema Nasreen, who herself was ousted from town a few years ago.
Metro attack: Kolkata youths start 'hugging' drive
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