(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Haryana Police, finally acting in the incident in which two sisters from Haryana's Rohtak town took on three molesters in a moving bus as the other passengers remained mute spectators, yesterday arrested all three youths.
Police arrested the alleged molesters, Deepak, Mohit and Kuldeep, after the incident was highlighted in the media. They have been booked for molestation and assault.
The state police had drawn flak for not being able to take any action after an incident came to light in Rohtak town.
The brave girls, Aarti and Pooja, thrashed the youths even as they were themselves assaulted by them. The girls hit one particular youth with a belt and their hands and legs in the incident that took place Friday.
The matter came to light after a woman travelling in the same bus recorded the incident on a mobile phone, police officials said Sunday.
Police, following a complaint by the girls, registered a case against the youth.
"We fought the assaulters all alone. No one came forward to help us as the youth hit us and even pushed us out of the moving bus," said Aarti and Pooja.
The father of the girls alleged that police officials were mounting pressure on them to strike a compromise in the matter.
The girls alleged that the boys were blowing kisses at them and throwing paper chits with their mobile numbers on them. When the girls objected, the youth made lewd gestures and passed comments.
A fellow woman passenger also objected but she was harassed by the youth. Other passengers in the bus, including the bus driver and conductor, did not come to their rescue.
The bus kept moving as the girls were being assaulted.
The sisters claimed that the bus stopped after some distance and the youth, and his accomplices, pushed them out of the moving bus and started hitting them. While one girl fell on the road, the other one fell in a field.
One of the sisters then attacked the youth with a brick after which he fled the spot.
The bus crew and other passengers neither helped the girls nor inform the police.
The girls called up the police and the women helpline but failed to get any response.
"The helpline attendant told us that they will call up in two minutes. But we got no call and no help," Aarti said.
Their father Rajesh Kumar said that police was trying to pressure him and his daughters to strike a compromise on the issue and not to pursue the matter.
The girls alleged that when the youth, who harassed them, were taken to the police station, the police official on duty told them (the girls) that nothing would come of a complaint against them.
The youth were allowed to go despite the complaint, the girls alleged.
Police officials claimed that the matter was being investigated.
Two teenaged girl students in Rohtak town, Madhu and Nikita, had committed suicide in August this year by consuming poison-laced juice after being harassed by boys. They were fed up of constant stalking by the boys when they used to go for their tuitions.
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