Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 9: Girl students and female folk, victims of eve-teasing find it difficult to venture out alone near places like educational institutions in the city as police has failed to keep check on the menacing activities.
Women's College Parade, Canal Road or Kacchi Chawni are the most vulnerable points where stalkers, eve-teasers and other shadowy characters remain on vigil to give the females a harrowing time.
Complaints of eve-teasing have been on rise. Most of these educational institutions are at a stone's throw from the concerned police stations.
Government College Women (GCW) Parade, a few furlongs away from the police station falling exactly on the same road is witnessed flooded with road romeos, eve-teasers, mostly youth, on prowl in the area.
Most of the parents, worried don't leave their daughters alone outside the women college or coaching centers. "To keep these rowdies away, there has never been a day when I didn't personally come to pick and drop my daughter," said a medico. But he said it was offending to hear miscreants passing lewd remarks to girls.
Complainants said most of the miscreants happen to be "kiths and kins of influential and so enjoy impunity."
Concerned citizens often end up having altercation with the miscreants. This College school is barely a few metres away from Police Control Room (PCR) and Police Post Parade.
Coaching hub in Kacchi Chawni is also at a stone's throw from the Police Station Pacca Danga in the city centre but eve-teasing, as per students, rules the roost under police nose.
Though some two months back the civil society had appealed the police top brass to look into the matter, respite looks awaited.
Also, some complaints of stalking have been pouring in. A woman said she was being followed by a stalker to her office. "The problem has so worsened for me that now I can't venture out alone unless accompanied by some male member from the family," she said.
But why don't such complainants inform police? "Informing police is not a simple task.
They (cops) want victims to come in person to Police Station and narrate whole story as to who is teasing or stalking them and why?" said a family adding "given the delicate social fabric they avoid going to Thana."
Though till a few years back, police would initiate drives against rowdies outside educational institutes for girls, complainants said, for now such actions have been shelved by the men-in-Khaki.
President of the Bar Association R S Pura Raj Kumar Thakyal Advocate along-with Advocates Ravinder Charak, Vice-President, Joginder Singh, M R Sangra, Raunoq Singh, S. Paramjeet Singh, Ajay Bharti, Ranjeet Singh, Chaman Lal, Sonika Gupta, Jyoti and Parveen Kesar and hundreds of concerned citizens drawn from all walks of life participated in the seminar. |
