Kolkata: Less than a week since the formation of a resistance group in a new city – intended to improve women’s safety – two men were arrested by police after warnings from group members.
The two men were allegedly teasing two young women walking home at BC Block in New Town on Thursday night.
Around 10:15 a.m.
on Thursday, two women in their 20s walked home along the new stretch of New Town No 131 streets when two young men were allegedly teasing and passing obscene comments in them.
The men were laborers, who dismantled the sand from a truck parked along the road.
“We walked back home after completing the practice of the Puja Durga community program, when the two men began to pass obscene statements and mocked us.
We shouted again but they began to use slang when we retreated,” said one woman.
While the incident happened, five men – volunteers on the night shift – took the round of the area.
They learned about the events of the women and rushed to the place.
While one of them called the local police station, the others began accusing the people accused of being involved in conversations and clicking on photographs and sent them to the local police station officers, along with the location of Google Area as ordered.
“The police quickly acted.
I called the police around 10:15 and they were in place in 10 minutes.
The two men were put into a police vehicle and taken at 10:30,” said Soumyadip Maity, a 35-year-old techie One volunteer.
Formed last week, members of the resistance group were assigned to patrol their homes or as assigned by the police, while traveling in the morning and evening.
They have been asked to remind the police every time they see something suspicious or illegal, without intervening physically.
Two workers, residents of Rajarhat, were arrested under the parts forbade but were then released with a guarantee after the women decided to oppose FIR.
“We learned the two young men were not a scary criminal and this was their first violation.
The arrest would destroy their careers and so we decided to give them a second chance,” said one of the victims.