Many concerned citizens staged a protest outside a Kolkata Metro station on Tuesday after a young couple was reportedly harassed and beaten up for "being too close" after boarding the metro train late Monday evening.

A gathering of youngsters also offered free hugs to people outside the Dum Dum metro station. In an official statement on its Facebook page, Kolkata Metro said that it was trying to look into the incident, adding that no complaint had been lodged at the time of the publishing of the post. "We are trying to get to the bottom of it," said the ...