No Evidence of New Year Mass S-e-x Attacks in Bangalore
The police commissioner of the southern Indian city of Bangalore says there is no evidence to prove allegations of mass molestation took place on New Year's Eve in the center of the city.Praveen Sood told the BBC that police officers had reviewed footage from almost 70 CCTV cameras. But he said police were looking into isolated incidents in other parts of the city that night.
A number of women have told the media they were assaulted by groups of men. Some have described being surrounded by unruly mobs, and being groped and harassed. 'Melee' Praveen Sood said police had answered to pictures from a member of the public who stated a woman had been attacked by way of men on a bike near his home.
"We had a have a look at it. We noticed it changed into quite a clear case of serious molestation. We failed to wait, we didn't even bother with whom the victim is. We didn't ask her, we wanted to defend her identification. we've registered a criminal case," he said.
but, Mr Sood said, the alleged attacks inside the middle of Bangalore never befell. The incidents are said to have took place inside the MG street location as a crowd of 10,000 people collected there to look inside the New year on Saturday.
He stated the pictures being utilized by the media to make allegations of mass molestation become virtually that of the melee that had resulted from a baton fee via police who had been looking to disperse the crowds.
"human beings ran, there had been quite a few women there. there was panic, there has been a melee, they were given separated, they had been crying… so that 30 seconds of confusion is being projected as a mass molestation. I categorically say that nothing of that type has occurred," he stated.
Six people held on Wednesday were detained over an incident in a different part of the city, he said. Mr Sood said that despite a public appeal, no one had come forward to record a complaint of molestation or harassment.
He said, however, that he had seen some women telling the media that they were touched inappropriately and that the police were ready to treat those statements as complaints and begin an investigation.
One woman, a marketing professional who asked to be identified only as Pooja, told the BBC that she was assaulted both in a bar and as she walked to meet a friend.
even if she fashioned a circle with any other institution of girls to try to walk to protection, "there have been guys who had been trying to touch right here and there", she stated.
"there was no longer a unmarried face you could make out or who turned into doing it," she stated, declaring how difficult it'd be to record a grievance.
any other girl, photographer Chaitali Wasnik, told the BBC she became groped in every other a part of Bangalore on New year's Eve.
She said a person approached her and tried to grab her breasts, however ran away whilst she fought returned.
"I want the women to understand that you may come forward and speak it out, whatever you have got confronted," she instructed the BBC. "You don't ought to be scared."
