Monday, September 10, 2007

Outraged

A woman in her mid-30s was found naked and unconscious on a CST-Titwala train's first class ladies compartment on Saturday night.The unidentified woman travelled the entire 65-km distance between the two stations in that condition with no help forthcoming from a single commuter. - TOI

What can I say - I am appalled, outraged and frightened by the worsening security conditions for women in the city. And this happened on the 9:27pm local, not even late into the night. What's even more appalling is that nobody did anything to help the poor woman even after she was found. At least earlier, there were cops on ladies compartments (doesn't really help if you're the only woman and there is this male cop with a heavy old gun though). Now there's absolutely nothing. Women commandos? They only seem to be interested in harassing and shoving around hawkers on platforms. I've never seen one on a local train.

I don't know the reasons why dance bars were closed in the city, but I do know that crimes against women have risen sharply post the same. Whatever the moral police have to say about dance bars, it kept sexual predators off the streets and the streets were safer for women. How long before Mumbai gets to be as bad as Delhi?

1 comment:

MP said...

That is HORRIBLE!!
I'm sitting here shaking my head wondering how these things happen..what is not wired right in some peoples brains that make them think it's OK to do these things. Did you hear about that poor little 6 year old that was sexually assulted then hung in Texas? Not acceptable.