Sainthia: A 17-year-old trained in taekwondo unleashed her blue belt fury on three boys who teased her on a Sainthia street until they fell at her feet pleading "you are like my sister".

The girl, a Higher Secondary examinee, handed the boys over to police after the Monday evening thrashing and requested all girls to learn martial arts for self-defence.

Witnesses in Chatripara, the area where the incident occurred, said the boys often teased girls. Two of them are minors.

The taekwondo girl shared details of the episode with Metro

"On Monday evening, around 500m from my home, I found three boys (two of them are minors and appeared for Madhyamik this year and the third is a college student) pointing at me. They then started teasing me.

"I stopped and requested them not to do so. The oldest among them caught my hand and asked me to accompany him to a lonely area. I found several people around me but none stopped them. One of them advised me to go home without arguing with the boys. First I thought I should not get involved in such matters as I had my Higher Secondary exam on Tuesday. But then I changed my mind and decided to teach them a lesson.

"I asked them to wait for a minute as I thought I should alert my family first. I told my mother I was going to teach a lesson to some boys. One of the boys caught my hand and then I got started.

"When I started to kick and punch them, the boys became puzzled. I beat them up for 15 minutes till the police arrived. By then, they were at my feet saying 'You are like my sister.'

"I thank my school and my trainer. I started learning the martial arts when I was in Class VIII. This is the first time I applied the techniques I learnt for self-defence."

"A cop in Sainthia said the boys had been arrested. "Two them are 16 years old. We have started a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act."