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Interesting approach to dealing with street harassers in India — what do you think?

“Frustrated after the failure of its repeated attempts to tackle the growing menace of eve teasing in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut town, the police have come up with a special plan to rein in roadside majnus.

The police have decided to photograph ‘diehard majnus’ and paste their pictures at busy thoroughfares and public places across the town. Police said people can then identify their faces easily.

“Public display of their pictures will also create a guilty feeling among the majnus,” said a police officer.
The police also plan to ascertain the criminal history of eve teasers across Meerut through Operation Majnu.

“A history sheet of such persons will be opened at police stations and the Gangsters Act will also be slapped on them,” said the officer.

He said the town has been witnessing a growing menace of roadside eve teasers, who had made life miserable for girls.

“These majnus roam around girls’ schools and colleges and markets frequented by women. At times they even make indecent gestures towards women,” the official added.”

Plainclothes police officers arrested 100, that’s right, 100, street harassers in Kolkata, India, during a two day time period in late February. All 100 men were caught making lewd comments to women in public places.

Via The Times of India:

“While they were booked under relatively minor sections and are out on bail, police believe this would be a jolt enough to reign in molesters on the prowl.

Fifty-year-old Sadhan Ghosh (name changed), an employee of a private firm at Dalhousie, was waiting near a cinema at Esplanade on Friday afternoon. A woman in her mid-thirties was standing a few yards away from Ghosh, leaning on a pillar. Ghosh, who was waiting for his friend, allegedly made some lewd gestures at her, trying to grab her attention.

Unknown to Ghosh, the woman was actually a constable of Kolkata Police’s detective department. Soon, following a signal made by her, an officer grabbed Ghosh and took him to the local police station. Even before he could realize it, Ghosh was booked for disorderly conduct.

Like Ghosh, several middle-aged men were caught by the cops in plainclothes for disturbing women on city roads….

Police sources confirmed that more than 20 teams of police in plainclothes have been stationed at Esplanade, Metro stations, Victoria Memorial, Alipore Zoo and in front of some marketplaces and shopping hubs in south Kolkata.”

I wonder if the mass arrests will work? Will there be fewer harassers (at least for a time)?

What a commotion it would cause if police arrested 100 street harassers in a city in the United States!