and assaulted by three youths on a bike

surveillance cameras

sexually harassed

Jyothi Nivas College

Jessica

vada pav

Woman and her friends were harassedAfter a series of mugging incidents, Koramangala residents decided, a couple of weeks ago, to pool in funds to install 50 high-resolution. But residents themselves let down three women who wereby three youths on a bike. While one of the women attempted to teach the “chief tormentor” a lesson, onlookers watched and took videos of the incident on their phones.One of the girls filed a complaint two days after the incident, but police — for a change — immediately registered a case of molestation and assault against the unidentified youth. “An investigation is on and we will nab the accused as soon as possible,” Rohini Katoch Sepat, deputy commissioner of police (South-East), said.The incident took place around 10pm nearwhen(name changed to protect identity) and two of her friends were heading to one of their homes close to the college after shopping at a nearby market.“We were returning to my friend’s house which is just 100m from the college,” said Jessica, 21, who works as assistant producer in a private company in the HSR Layout. “We were near Empire hotel when three men on a Honda Activa began following us. They passed obscene and lewd comments and also used the F-word several times.”Jessica, from Delhi, claims that one of the men — the rider — touched her inappropriately and attempted to sexually assault her. “The man riding the scooter put his hand out and slapped my bottom and tried to ride away. I chased the scooter and pulled the cheap b****** off the vehicle. My friends also ran with me and managed to pull the other two men off the bike too.”The three men fell off the bike. But what followed was even more shocking. “After he fell on the road, the rider started hitting me again and even punched my stomach. By this time a large crowd had gathered. The rider’s friends panicked after seeing the crowd and fled with the bike, leaving him behind,” Jessica said.Jessica held on to the rider, but even the presence of so many people did not seem to intimidate the man. “He continued hitting me and threatened he would ‘come back’ for me. He also used vulgar language which a decent person would never use. This agitated me and I tore off his shirt leaving him half-naked,” Jessica said.She says the crowd, mostly men, remained mute spectators and no one came forward to help. “They instead stood around clicking photos and shooting videos,” Jessica said. “A girl who was eatingat a nearby shop came up to the rider and asked him stop misbehaving. She even threatened to call the police. This scared the pervert and he ran away half-naked,” Jessica said.The incident left Jessica traumatised and for two days she refused to leave her house. She filed a complaint with the Koramangala police only on Wednesday after her friends forced her to. She has also handed over a picture of the scooter that she clicked while two of the perverts were getting away.Police suspect the men are local residents. “Bangalore is turning out to be unsafe and unreliable,” Jessica said. “There were so many people watching this happen, but nobody came forward to help. There was no police patrol in a sensitive place where hundreds of girls stay.”