Vijay V Singh, TNN | Oct 9, 2011, 02.22AM IST
MUMBAI: Raising her voice against eve-teasing has cost a 20-year-old girl dear.
Around 6.20 am on Saturday, three students were walking to their college in Malad when two boys on a motorcycle and brushed past them, making obscene gestures at the same time. As the girls screamed at them, the boys fled, only to return and attack one of them with a sharp object.
The 20-year-old victim from Vasai, who is in her BA second year at SNDT College in Malad (W), was headed towards her college to write an exam when the incident occurred. The police said even as the girls protested against the obscene act, the boys rode away but took another route to come back. On their return, they targeted the victim who had fallen behind her two friends, said the police, adding that one of the boys, probably the pillion rider, reached out from behind and slashed the girl on her back with a blade-like object. The bikers immediately fled, brushing past the girls once again, the police said.
In fact, the victim's friends did not even realize that she had been attacked. Only when she cried for help they turned around and noticed that she was injured. They, with the help of passersby, took her to a nearby hospital where she was administered five stitches.
The Malad police said the victim was out of danger. But none could give details of the accused and could not even remember the bike's number.
The police initially suspected that it was the fallout of a relationship gone sour. "But after going through the details, we have concluded that the roadside miscreants attacked the victim as they were angered when the girls protested and abused them," said senior inspector of Malad police station Avinash Jadhav. The Malad police have registered a complaint against the two unidentified youths and said they had never received any complaint of eve-teasing outside the college but from now on, they would keep a watch to nab the culprits.
Around 6.20 am on Saturday, three students were walking to their college in Malad when two boys on a motorcycle and brushed past them, making obscene gestures at the same time. As the girls screamed at them, the boys fled, only to return and attack one of them with a sharp object.
The 20-year-old victim from Vasai, who is in her BA second year at SNDT College in Malad (W), was headed towards her college to write an exam when the incident occurred. The police said even as the girls protested against the obscene act, the boys rode away but took another route to come back. On their return, they targeted the victim who had fallen behind her two friends, said the police, adding that one of the boys, probably the pillion rider, reached out from behind and slashed the girl on her back with a blade-like object. The bikers immediately fled, brushing past the girls once again, the police said.
In fact, the victim's friends did not even realize that she had been attacked. Only when she cried for help they turned around and noticed that she was injured. They, with the help of passersby, took her to a nearby hospital where she was administered five stitches.
The Malad police said the victim was out of danger. But none could give details of the accused and could not even remember the bike's number.
The police initially suspected that it was the fallout of a relationship gone sour. "But after going through the details, we have concluded that the roadside miscreants attacked the victim as they were angered when the girls protested and abused them," said senior inspector of Malad police station Avinash Jadhav. The Malad police have registered a complaint against the two unidentified youths and said they had never received any complaint of eve-teasing outside the college but from now on, they would keep a watch to nab the culprits.
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