They beat women in the name of God

Posted by imports on January 27, 2009

A year after two women were molested outside the JW Marriot in Juhu Mumbai, another attack on women. This time, it’s not by sexually-frustrated men trying to grope women. This time, it a group of self-appointed police – The Shri Ram Sena they call themselves.

In the name of God (Lord Ram is a Hindu God), around 40 men openly gate crash into a pub which they believe is the centre of immoral activity. They make their presence (and hooliganism) felt by dragging the women by their hair, pulling them out, tearing their clothes, throwing them on the floor and all things immoral, atleast the civilised world would think so.

All this happens, a day before India’s Republic Day. The country which takes pride in calling itself the largest democracy in the world.

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Questions I’d like to ask as a woman and citizen of India:

1. How did the main molester of the JW Marriot incident escape?

2. Should I be scared of going to a pub or night club because I am a woman?

3. In response to the assault on women in the pub, the Karnataka Chief Minister made a statement. But why did he have to read it out? Couldn’t he look up and say what he wanted? Or was he scared? What kind of leaders do we have?

4. 17 of the assaulters have been caught. What about the rest? What about the leader?

5. The leader of the Shri Ram Sena group is Pramod Muthalik. He openly spoke to TV new channels and reporters. Now he is absconding. How did the police not track him down and arrest him? How did he escape?

Some background on Pramod Muthalik:

-He is the founder of Sri Ram Sena. He is a former leader of the Bajrang Dal.
-He has dismissed the pub attack as a “small incident”. He justified the act saying that his men were doing their “duty”.
-His Sena reportedly runs a militant camp and has been blamed for inciting communal violence and also preparing youth to undertake retaliatory acts of terror.

6. Considering there is so much information about him and his criminal-like activities. Shouldn’t the police have kept an eye on him and his whereabouts?

7. Wouldn’t this issue die out without the media highlighting it? Why do the cops and politicians blame the media for hyping it? Do they not have any sense of regret or shame?

8. How did the gang of men enter the pub?

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Comments (5)

nastypajamas (72 comments)

January 27th, 2009 23:16

bloody freaky gang of monsters. i feel like lynchin ‘em all. who’re they to ask what women do and where they go….who licenses them to get drunk like shit and still think that women asking for a drink are imoral….and to top it all, the state’s leaders say its a small thing….BJP says its a “political consipirarcy”- fuk ‘em. its unbelievable, this group’s audacity to even think of harming women.

but the larger issue of such talibanist splinter groups so easily doing whatever they want to on the back of brawn must be tackled.its the biggest social security threat.

mahafreed (139 comments)

January 31st, 2009 17:39

ya, we are devolving instead of evolving. Now, they want to ban pubs. lol

nastypajamas (72 comments)

February 1st, 2009 17:14

yeah…i’ve written a bit on it on me blog as well

ruben chowhury (1 comments)

February 17th, 2009 13:54

behead mr.Pramod Muthalik aqnd 40 molestors, his lawyer mr.rd kulkarni in manglalore in public otherwise everday will be the same terror.

nastypajamas (72 comments)

February 23rd, 2009 16:12

now this chaddi-in-chief muthalik wants to sue the campaigners….dunno what’ll happen of that, but i still dont understand something- was a case of molestation and physical assault and harming a woman’s integrity registered? were the chaddis given bail despite such a case? as far as i remember, the victims were too scared to lodge an fir (how sad is that- it only helps in cementing the notion of “no one can dare come up against me ” that these chaddis have in ‘em…its almost like a nod to the act)…why didnt the campaigners also not encourage the victims to come together and lodge a case? and ruben, dont give chaddi-in-chief muthalik the respect of a human by prefixing mr. to his name

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