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NEW DELHI—A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a crowded bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of thousands of women silently endure sexual harassment daily.
The video, filmed by a passenger and aired on several television channels Monday, shows the two young women hitting, punching and beating their harassers with a belt, as other passengers silently look on. The women, identified only by their first names, Arati and Pooja, told reporters that they lashed out at the men after enduring lewd comments and pawing from them.
“No one came to our help. In fact, they tried to stop us and scare us by saying the men would come for us and attack us or throw acid on us,” one of the sisters told New Delhi Television channel.
Press Trust of India reported Monday that the video was shot Friday as the sisters were on their way to college. The video drew a massive response on social media.
By late Sunday, police in the state of Haryana had arrested three men and were investigating the incident.
Sexual violence and harassment faced by Indian women has been the subject of a heated debate in India since the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/..._harassers_on_bus_m akes_waves_in_india.html
Haryana sisters beat up molesters in bus, passengers merely look on
NEW DELHI—A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a crowded bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of thousands of women silently endure sexual harassment daily.
The video, filmed by a passenger and aired on several television channels Monday, shows the two young women hitting, punching and beating their harassers with a belt, as other passengers silently look on. The women, identified only by their first names, Arati and Pooja, told reporters that they lashed out at the men after enduring lewd comments and pawing from them.
“No one came to our help. In fact, they tried to stop us and scare us by saying the men would come for us and attack us or throw acid on us,” one of the sisters told New Delhi Television channel.
Press Trust of India reported Monday that the video was shot Friday as the sisters were on their way to college. The video drew a massive response on social media.
By late Sunday, police in the state of Haryana had arrested three men and were investigating the incident.
Sexual violence and harassment faced by Indian women has been the subject of a heated debate in India since the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/..._harassers_on_bus_m akes_waves_in_india.html
Haryana sisters beat up molesters in bus, passengers merely look on
