Uttarakhand Police have arrested 4 males after a disturbing video was posted on X Wednesday afternoon, exhibiting two girls being harassed by a bunch of males late at night time close to the Sacred Coronary heart College in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani. The police are nonetheless trying to find others.
The one-minute video seems to have been shot on a cell phone and reveals the automobile wherein the ladies had been travelling first being pressured to decelerate by a black Mahindra Scorpio in entrance.
This befell on what appears to be a quiet aspect road (recognized as Mukhani Highway within the hill city by Prachi Joshi, who posted the video on X). Then a second automotive, a Hyundau Nios i20, speeds into view from the best aspect. Two males are perched on the entrance doorways; just one leg is contained in the automotive as they sit on the doorways. The 2 are shouting abusive feedback on the girls.
“Simply tonight I used to be coming again with my feminine pal from a film and out of the blue two vehicles, stuffed with 10 males, tried to dam our method….” Ms Joshi, who shared the video, wrote within the submit.
“This occurred straight for 25 minutes,” she stated, detailing the horror that adopted.
The black Scorpio (with short-term registration T0724UK4618C) was forward of us… they tried to cease us from passing by opening their doorways. The white Nios i20 (UK-04-AK-1928) was behind blocking us so we could not run away. The primary time it occurred we escaped…”
This Video is shared by Feminine from Haldwani
Stating “”Simply tonight, I used to be coming again with my feminine pal from the film and out of the blue two vehicles stuffed with 10 males tried to dam our method. This incident befell at Mukhani highway close to Sacred Coronary heart College, Haldwani This occurred+ pic.twitter.com/4wxAClYxJh— Prachi Joshi (@amicus_curiae_) August 28, 2024
“The second time they blocked us fully by opening all automotive doorways however fortunately a person on a scooter appeared… he tried to move them which gave us an opportunity to flee. We someway managed to run from there however simply after jiffy they once more tried to do the identical (factor).”
Ms Joshi’s submit additionally tagged Uttarakhand Police and ripped into them for failing to make sure the protection and safety of ladies, even because the nation is up in arms over the rape and homicide of a physician at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital and claims of sexual assault within the Kerala movie business.
Is that this how peace and safety is being maintained within the metropolis? Why is hooliganism growing within the metropolis @uttarakhandcops that you’re going to take a strict motion towards this matter as a result of someway that is associated to security and safety of the ladies residing in Haldwani
— Prachi Joshi (@amicus_curiae_) August 28, 2024
“Is that this how peace and safety is being maintained within the metropolis? Why is hooliganism growing within the metropolis,” Ms Joshi requested, urging the police to take strict motion towards the boys within the video.
“That is associated to the protection and safety of the ladies residing in Haldwani…”
The disturbing video was posted on-line hours earlier than President Droupadi Murmu’s anguished enchantment to the nation to make sure the protection and safety of ladies.
She criticised the “obnoxious amnesia” that a lot of this nation develops and which permits girls to be harassed, assaulted, and brutalised each day, and known as for introspection and alter.
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“Sufficient is sufficient. No civilised society can enable daughters and sisters to be subjected to such atrocities,” she stated, “In 12 years since Nirbhaya (the gangrape and homicide of a Delhi lady in 2012), numerous rapes have been forgotten…”
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