WHY THERE IS NEED OF NATIONAL MENS COMMISSION? Two days after the nation hailed two sisters from small-town Haryana as serial bravehearts and Rohtak sisters for taking on alleged molesters, conflicting versions of what really happened inside a bus in Rohtak on Sunday have appeared. What happens in the video showing the Rohtak girls? In the video, that was played on a loop on TV channels, the two sisters - Aarti, 22 and Puja, 19 - could be seen thrashing three men. Using their belts and hands, the two sisters were seen attacking the men who, they claimed, had followed them inside from the bus stop. The girls claimed the three men - identified as Deepak, Mohit and Kuldeep - argued with them after they objected to them distributing their phone numbers at the bus stop. The sisters alleged that the youths first blew kisses at them and then threw slips with their mobile phone numbers towards them. When they objected, they made lewd gestures. The sisters said the bus stopped after some distance and the youths pushed them out and started hitting them. While one fell on the road, the other fell in a field. The video inside the bus was apparently shot by a pregnant woman, who the girls - both BSc final year students of Rohtak Government College - claimed was the only person to have shown them any support. How did the nation react to the story? Outrage and adulations soon followed. Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar announced a cash reward and said the sisters will be honoured on Republic Day. The National Commission for Women praised the girls. Union Minister Uma Bharati said all girls should do what these sisters did. On the other side, the three men were arrested and remanded to judicial custody till December 6. The Indian Army said it will not recruit two of the three alleged molesters despite them reportedly clearing physical and medical tests to join the force. The driver and conductor of the bus were also suspended. The girls, meanwhile, were all over the TV, narrating their ordeal, as reporters crowded their home in Rohtaks Kharkhauda village. News anchors debated the pathetic state of womens safety in the country. Is there another version of the Rohtak incident? However, if certain reports are to be believed, the whole episode may well turn out to be only one side of the truth. A report published in The News Minute says it is possible the sisters were at fault and that the three men acted in self-defence, a claim not yet confirmed by the Haryana Police or other authorities. The claim of the three men is backed by a man called Govind K Singathia who posted a message on Janmat, a Facebook forum. Singathia claims that the girls were travelling in a bus which broke down and the driver moved them to another bus, in which the three alleged assaulters were already travelling. These girls got on the bus and tried to sit in the seats with the same seat numbers from the bus that had broken down. They asked an old lady and one of the men to move from the seats which had their seat numbers. The boys then asked the old woman not to get up. But the girls persisted and troubled the old lady and she finally got up and sat on a discarded tyre in the bus. The girls then demanded the boy to get up and started cursing them to which the boys retaliated as well, cursing them equally. After the verbal argument between the girls and the boys, the girl handed her phone to another girl on the bus and asked her to make an mms of her teaching this boy a lesson. She then took out her belt and started hitting him. All the passengers tried to stop her. If it was really the boys fault, the passengers wouldnt have sat idle. This is Haryana. Not Delhi, the Facebook post says. In his post, Singathia further alleged that the old woman tried to file an FIR but the police turned her away. The residents of Kansla village in Rohtak, from where the three accused hail, have also served an ultimatum on the district administration to release the three boys within 24 hours. The residents alleged that a false FIR has been registered against the three and they have been falsely implicated. They also claimed that it was not a case of alleged molestation but a dispute over seats in the bus. Has a second video showing the Rohtak sisters emerged? In another twist to the tale, another video surfaced on Tuesday in which the same sisters are shown beating up a young man who allegedly harassed them in a public park in Mumbai. The sisters said the footage is a month old. When a TV channel asked them how both the incidents were shot just when they began hitting the men and that the videos show no context of the fights, Puja said anyone could have filmed it. I am in the news so these videos are now coming out... These videos must have been shot by passers-by who might have been worried about my safety, she told the TV channel indiatoday.intoday.in/…/rohtak-sisters…/1/404839.html
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:05:03 +0000
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