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Rawalpindi cops enjoy watching women being eve-teased | A number of women shoppers in Pakistan have come out with complaints that eve teasing is on the rise in markets
and bazaars, and that the police enjoy watching it happening. With Eid just around
the corner, the markets and bazaars are crowded with shoppers, but there are hardly
any policemen to control the crowd, and to see that men visiting the areas are
accompanied by females. A majority of eve teasing and purse-snatching cases have
gone unreported, as families dislike visiting the police stations not only to
save their reputation, but also to save themselves from police harassment. According
to the police data last week over 20 women were deprived of handbags and shopping
bags. Young men start walking with families in the crowded Moti Bazaar and tease
women, especially young girls, who felt shy to bring such incidents to the notice
of their family members. Tench Bazaar had already been encroached by the stallholders
and the Eid rush had added to the problems of the Eid shoppers. "A group of young
men gathered around a stall of fake jewellery and bangles at Commercial Market,
Satellite Town, and harassed girls, and this is a common practice," the Daily
Times quoted Adeeba as saying. She said if someone wanted to lodge a complaint,
they had to search for the police giving enough time to the eve teasers to escape
from the scene. A woman shopper, who was visiting a Bank Road shopping centre,
complained that male police officials deployed at the bazaar and markets also
enjoyed seeing women teased, chased and harassed. A police official said that
City Police Officer (CPO) Rao Muhammad Iqbal had directed the Cantonment Police
Station to set up a public complaint cell on Bank Road for quick action on complaints.
He said three policewomen had been deployed at each gate of Moti Bazaar to check
the entry of men, however, the plain fact was that not a single policeman was
seen at any gate. |
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