“One way or the other Escaped…” Uttarakhand Lady Shares Video Of Harassment

Haldwani:

A disturbing video was posted on X Wednesday afternoon of two girls being harassed by a variety of males late at night time close to the Sacred Coronary heart College in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani.

The one-minute video seems to have been shot on a cell phone and exhibits the automobile by which the ladies had been travelling first being compelled to decelerate by a black Mahindra Scorpio in entrance.

This came about 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 automobile, a Hyundau Nios i20, speeds into view from the suitable aspect. Two males are perched on the entrance doorways; just one leg is contained in the automobile 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 immediately two vehicles, stuffed with 10 males, tried to dam our approach….” Ms Joshi, who shared the video, wrote within the publish.

“This occurred straight for 25 minutes,” she stated, detailing the horror that adopted.

The black Scorpio (with momentary 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
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— Prachi Joshi (@amicus_curiae_) August 28, 2024

“The second time they blocked us fully by opening all automobile doorways however fortunately a person on a scooter appeared… he tried to go them which gave us an opportunity to flee. We by some means managed to run from there however simply after couple of minutes they once more tried to do the identical (factor).”

Ms Joshi’s publish additionally tagged Uttarakhand Police and ripped into them for failing to make sure the security 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 trade.

Is that this how peace and safety is being maintained within the metropolis? Why is hooliganism rising within the metropolis @uttarakhandcops that you’re going to take a strict motion towards this matter as a result of by some means 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 rising within the metropolis,” Ms Joshi requested, urging the police to take strict motion towards the lads within the video.

“That is associated to the security and safety of the ladies residing in Haldwani…”

The police haven’t but responded, publicly, to Ms Joshi’s grievance.

The disturbing video was posted on-line hours earlier than President Droupadi Murmu’s anguished enchantment to the nation to make sure the security 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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