Man molests girl in broad daylight; Delhi police say kissing isn't molestation

executive@coastaldigest.com (CD Network)
August 11, 2015

New Delhi, Aug 11: After being harassed in broad daylight at the Connaught Place, the heart of the city, when the victim approached the police to file a molestation complaint, cops refused to lodge her complaint and said that kissing isn't molestation.

Radhika P Singh, a friend of the victim, posted about the incident on Facebook and it went viral. According to the post, when the victim was walking down the M block in Connaught Place, a man tried to kiss her forcefully.

She cried for help. The crowd over there nabbed the man and dialled up the police, who arrived 40 minutes later.

The cops took him aside, spoke to him and then ask the victim to lodge a written complaint. She does it twice, which they reject for being 'not clear'. When her friend submits a third one saying the incident was a case of molestation, the cops come up with a bizarre explanation: just trying to kiss a girl is not molestation!

Recounting the ordeal in her Facebook post, the woman's friend, Radhika Singh, says: "She was walking down M block (near barakhamba red light) Connaught Place, when this gentleman (Nikhil) came and tried kissing her in broad daylight. This happened in one of the most crowded places and no, she was not dressed inappropriately (coz that is what many in our society think when a girl is harassed) - so, she got hold of the guy and started screaming at him, when some passersby came and helped her nab him."

She then writes how the cop at the police station, Sanjiv Kumar, rejected the third complaint.

"She (the victim) wrote an application and the sub inspector ( Mr. Sanjiv Kumar) rejected right away saying she was not clear. She wrote an application 2nd time - again he said she hasn't explained "in detail" what has happened to him and what this guy did to her... Finally I offered to write an application in very clear words... It was again rejected by the sub inspector saying that I wrong in thinking that she was molested. According to him just trying to kiss a girl is NOT molestation!!!!!!!!!" Singh wrote on Facebook.

Singh further wrote that people standing and watching the chain of events said, "u know he is just a guy... Let him go".

But what the cops then did is likely to spell fresh trouble for the victim - they passed the victim's phone number to the stranger's parents, who called her on Sunday night. "...now she (the victim) fears the worst," Radhika Singh wrote.

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The man [above in the photo] allegedly tried to kiss a girl who was just passing by a lane in Delhi's Connaught Place

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A total of 77 acres of private land has been acquired and compensated, including 31.2 acres in Kerebettu village, Hebri taluk, and 45.7 acres in Shivapura village. However, approval for 36.5 acres of government land is still pending. She instructed the forest department to assess whether this land falls under an eco-sensitive zone.

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