The Great Ganesha

Just caught this off Sepia Mutiny. Mid Day photographer Shadab Khan happened to be at the Gateway of India on New Year’s Eve. Read what he witnessed:

On New Year?s Eve, I was supposed to click pictures of revellers at the Gateway of India, but what I witnessed instead has left me shaken.

A young woman was groped by some 60 perverts in plain public view, while her male friend, who tried to protect her, was pushed aside violently.

The 10 harrowing minutes the helpless woman cried for help as the perverts abused her, shook my faith in the city I have lived in all my life. I thought such things happened only in Delhi. I was clearly wrong. [link]

This is pathetic, people. I’m ready to allow Bombay to be rude, but this is disgusting. Truly disgusting. And apparently, the police had no knowledge of the incident.

PSI Umesh Kadam, who was on duty at Colaba police station on the night expressed surprise and said, ?Nobody filed a complaint with us. We haven?t received a report about any such incident. I have been on duty in the police station the whole night.? [link]

Sepia Mutiny and Amit Varma have more on the incident.

Update: It looks like they’ve arrested five people from that night, but as long as there is no registered complaint (which there isn’t), they can’t keep them there for long. See here.

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