Bengaluru molestation: Police finds evidence, registers FIR

Mangalore Today News Network

Jan 04, 2017: Women left the pubs after celebrating New Year’s eve when they soon came across drunken revelers who tried to molest and accost them.

Their New Year’s eve soon turned into a nightmare after several women who were allegedly molested at a large gathering in city’s downtown area.

Girls were pawed, groped and abused by revellers at Bengaluru’s MG Road and Brigade Road. Many women ran towards police seeking protection from drunken men who tried to molest them. Despite women going through what many called an appalling state of affair, no cases of molestation were registered with the Bengaluru police.

According to a recent report, police today claimed to have found "credible" evidence of molestation and have registered an FIR.

As the incidents drew widespread outrage with no action from the police, Bengaluru’s new Commissioner of Police, Praveen Sood through a series of tweets tonight, said his team was working on the case silently.

"As promised we have found credible evidence repeat credible evidence in a case of wrongful confinement, molestation and attempt to rob," Sood had said in a tweet.

"We have taken action by registering an FIR. Investigation is in progress. Police is working, though silently," he had said in another tweet.

Stating that enquiry is underway by an officer of DCP rank, he has said that they have gone through the feeds from 45 cameras on MG road, and unedited video is available with police. Eyewitness accounts had suggested that women were molested and groped and lewd remarks were also passed by miscreants late night on December 31 in the area even as it was claimed that 1,500 police personnel had been deployed to control the crowds.

Police had earlier said that no one had come forward to file a complaint about the incident. If any lady lodges a complaint of molestation that took place on December 31 night, the police will not waste even a minute in registering a case and launch a probe, Sood had tweeted on January 2,

He added that even without a complainant if police finds credible evidence of molestation, a case will be registered suo motu without waiting. Sood took over as the City Police Commissioner from N S Megharikh, on January 1.