KOLKATA: A mob of Metro passengers allegedly molested and thrashed some young ladies on Thursday night time for bold to protest against moral policing, the incident coming slightly 72 hours after Monday’s mob assault on a young couple.
The incident happened virtually at the same spot — just out of doors the Dum Dum Metro station premises — and served to underline the schism between the town’s liberal ethos and its moral police brigade. But Thursday’s incident underscored the most important distinction as neatly: it marked a fightback from children seeking their own house against a mob seeking to deny them that.
The ladies, accompanied by their male pals, went to 2 police stations — first the Government Railway Police station at Dum Dum (the place they were fobbed off over “jurisdiction” issues) and then the Sinthi police station — to check in their criticism. “We have had sufficient of this boorishness and mob violence,” one of the ladies instructed TOI on phone from the Sinthi police station. “We have now determined to struggle again,” add-ed certainly one of her pals.
On Monday night time, a mob driven a young couple out of a Metro rake after it reached Dum Dum station and then thrashed them for “status too close to one another” whilst on the teach. Wednesday noticed the first protests against mobocracy as children converged on Metro stations and then boarded the trains, embracing each other in impromptu “Hok Alingan (Let There Be Hugging)” demonstrations. Thursday’s demonstration by placard-carrying children out of doors the Dum Dum Metro station development used to be part of the same protest movement.
“We were protesting peacefully out of doors the Metro station when one middle-aged particular person started abusing us and supported the mob that assaulted the couple on Monday. We protested however the guy driven me, touching my breasts, and abused me,” a young girl in her 20s instructed TOI.
Some of the other ladies attempted to catch the man however he driven them away as neatly. Some other aged and middle-aged Metro passengers then got into the act, protecting again the women. “The guy who molested the protester fled and entered the station premises. We attempted to prevent him however cops at the gate prevented us from getting into and some of them charged at us with batons,” Rabindra Bharati University Human Rights postgraduate scholar Abhishek Kar said.
“We found support from a number of other folks, ranging from the aged to university scholars, however there were some who didn't like our protest. Some of them said we were jobless and emblems of ‘apasanskriti’. We chose to not get provoked however, then, this guy in a yellow blouse came forward from nowhere and started the row,” every other Rabindra Bharati University scholar, Soumi Sen, said.
The woman, along with some of her pals, first went to the Dum Dum GRP, who refused to take their criticism, bringing up jurisdiction issues, and requested them to go to Sinthi police station. “The incident took place out of doors the station and the criticism will have to be lodged with the town police,” a GRP officer instructed them.
Metro Railway took the same line. “The incident took place out of doors the station. We don’t know whether there used to be any molestation. But we heard a group of 20-odd protesters attempted to go into the station premises and were stopped by safety workforce,” a Metro official said.
The protesters then went to Sinthi police station, the place they were requested to provide their names and call numbers ahead of a criticism used to be lodged. “We have accepted the criticism and are taking a look into the allegations,” a Sinthi police officer said.
The incident happened virtually at the same spot — just out of doors the Dum Dum Metro station premises — and served to underline the schism between the town’s liberal ethos and its moral police brigade. But Thursday’s incident underscored the most important distinction as neatly: it marked a fightback from children seeking their own house against a mob seeking to deny them that.
The ladies, accompanied by their male pals, went to 2 police stations — first the Government Railway Police station at Dum Dum (the place they were fobbed off over “jurisdiction” issues) and then the Sinthi police station — to check in their criticism. “We have had sufficient of this boorishness and mob violence,” one of the ladies instructed TOI on phone from the Sinthi police station. “We have now determined to struggle again,” add-ed certainly one of her pals.
On Monday night time, a mob driven a young couple out of a Metro rake after it reached Dum Dum station and then thrashed them for “status too close to one another” whilst on the teach. Wednesday noticed the first protests against mobocracy as children converged on Metro stations and then boarded the trains, embracing each other in impromptu “Hok Alingan (Let There Be Hugging)” demonstrations. Thursday’s demonstration by placard-carrying children out of doors the Dum Dum Metro station development used to be part of the same protest movement.
“We were protesting peacefully out of doors the Metro station when one middle-aged particular person started abusing us and supported the mob that assaulted the couple on Monday. We protested however the guy driven me, touching my breasts, and abused me,” a young girl in her 20s instructed TOI.
Some of the other ladies attempted to catch the man however he driven them away as neatly. Some other aged and middle-aged Metro passengers then got into the act, protecting again the women. “The guy who molested the protester fled and entered the station premises. We attempted to prevent him however cops at the gate prevented us from getting into and some of them charged at us with batons,” Rabindra Bharati University Human Rights postgraduate scholar Abhishek Kar said.
“We found support from a number of other folks, ranging from the aged to university scholars, however there were some who didn't like our protest. Some of them said we were jobless and emblems of ‘apasanskriti’. We chose to not get provoked however, then, this guy in a yellow blouse came forward from nowhere and started the row,” every other Rabindra Bharati University scholar, Soumi Sen, said.
The woman, along with some of her pals, first went to the Dum Dum GRP, who refused to take their criticism, bringing up jurisdiction issues, and requested them to go to Sinthi police station. “The incident took place out of doors the station and the criticism will have to be lodged with the town police,” a GRP officer instructed them.
Metro Railway took the same line. “The incident took place out of doors the station. We don’t know whether there used to be any molestation. But we heard a group of 20-odd protesters attempted to go into the station premises and were stopped by safety workforce,” a Metro official said.
The protesters then went to Sinthi police station, the place they were requested to provide their names and call numbers ahead of a criticism used to be lodged. “We have accepted the criticism and are taking a look into the allegations,” a Sinthi police officer said.
Moral cops molest, thrash girls at Metro station
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