No lessons have been learnt from the Dec. 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case. Women are still facing safety issues. Also, the way political leaders have reacted after the Bengaluru mass molestation is an indication that there is absolutely no change in their mindset.
Several women were allegedly molested despite huge police presence at a large gathering in Bangalore during New Year’s Eve revelry. To make matters worse, the Karnataka home minister blamed ‘western culture’ for the incident. Taking strong exception to Karnataka home minister G. Parameshwara’s remarks that the “western ways” of youngsters were the reason behind the incident of mass molestation in Bengaluru, National Commission for Women chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam on Monday sought his resignation.
On Wednesday, another such incident in Bengaluru came to the fore. The CCTV footage of a young girl being violently groped and molested by two scooter-borne men on an empty road on New Year’s day, once again, sent shockwaves across the country. Meanwhile, in Jaipur, two people raped a minor and tried to kill her by running her over with a motorbike. The incident took place on December 24 in Sarangsar town of Rajasthan’s Churu district, but it came to light only when the girl, who is in serious a condition, was referred a hospital in Jaipur.
Later on Thursday, a video of a mob running amok and attacking policemen with stones after they prevented two men from assaulting a woman on New Year eve in the national capital surfaced. Bengaluru continued to be in the news for all wrong reasons. On Friday again, a woman was allegedly assaulted near her home.
