Two journalism students from Arunachal Pradesh were racially abused by four people at Shantinagar Bus Stand on Tuesday evening.
While
the youth was also allegedly assaulted, his cousin sister was sexually
harassed. The two, who migrated to the city two years ago for their
undergraduate studies, were returning home when they were accosted by
two people around 8.45 p.m..
“They started sexually
harassing me. They were smelling of alcohol, and shouting out dirty
comments in broken English,” said the girl who was riding pillion on the
two-wheeler. When her cousin stopped the vehicle and removed the
helmet, the abuse turned racial.
“They pushed him
around and slapped him for no reason. Two others joined them, with one
of them claiming to be the son of the commissioner. ‘I am very powerful,
you don’t know what I can do,’ he started to say,” the girl told
The Hindu
.
The duo then called the police, and when no
policeman turned up, they took to Twitter to register their complaint on
Police Commissioner M.N. Reddi’s handle, @CPBLR.
While
advising the two to contact the divisional Deputy Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Reddi tweeted, “It is utterly false [the claim of an
assaulter that he is the Commissioner’s son]. Somebody has told lies…
Whoever they are, will be duly punished.”
The students then orally informed the Ashoknagar police about the incident.
Fear
The
two are now fearing a backlash. “The assaulters are barely a few metres
from our house. We do not know what they will do when they find out we
have complained,” they said.
This isn’t the first
time the two have faced racial abuse in the city. Persistent harassment
has seen them change four houses in nearly two years.
While the youth was also allegedly assaulted, his cousin was sexually harassed
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