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Eve-tease dilemma for cops

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JOY SENGUPTA Published 23.10.11, 12:00 AM

Patna, Oct. 22: A spurt in incidents of eve-teasing in the state capital has put police in a fix over the genuineness of the complaints.

In the past 24 hours, at least two incidents of mob attack over eve-teasing suspicion have been reported in the city. A 45-year-old man was beaten up by the public this morning after he allegedly passed lewd comments on a girl and tried to pull her dupatta.

The girl was standing in front of gate number 2 of the Patna zoo when the man went close to her. She raised an alarm and the passers-by caught hold of him and beat him up before calling the police.

“The girl, a college student, was standing in front of the zoo when the man tried to pull her clothes and hurled some lewd comments on her. The people of the area caught him and beat him up. He is in police custody at the moment,” Patna city central superintendent of police (SP) Shivdeep Lande said.

The man was behaving strangely and seemed mentally unstable, the police said.

On Friday evening, some residents at Patrakar Nagar bashed up a youth, whose friend was having a conversation with some girls.

“The girls were celebrating a friend’s birthday when some boys approached them with birthday greetings. It was quite obvious that the boys and the girls knew each other. Some residents saw them talking and thought it to be an incident of eve-teasing and attacked the boys. The boy who received maximum injuries had nothing to do with the incident. He was just accompanying his friends,” Lande said.

The officer added that such incidents were unfortunate.

Another case of alleged eve-teasing took a new twist today with principal of JD Women’s college claiming that a few students were targeting a college staff by cooking up eve-teasing allegations against him.

A group of girls, all students of the physics department of the college, alleged that the laboratory in-charge had misbehaved with them on October 13.

They claimed the man, identified as Manoj Kumar, had grabbed the hand of a student trying to pull her close.

College principal Usha Singh, however, denied the allegation.

“The college students are banned from using cellphones on campus. One of them was talking on her cellphone when the lab technician stopped her and snatched the phone. In the process, he touched her hand and the students turned the entire episode into an eve-teasing incident. A written application regarding the same was given to me the next day. Today a group of girls stopped me and enquired what action I had taken in the matter,” Singh told The Telegraph.

She added that a committee had already been formed to probe the complaint and the report will be sent to the Magadh University after Chhath Puja.

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