Braveheart Rohtak sisters thrash eve-teasers as others look on

ROHTAK: Mustering courage, two harassed college-going sisters today thrashed three eve-teasers inside a moving bus with passengers remaining mute spectators to their plight.

Late tonight, police said all the three youths -- Kuldeep, Mohit and Deepak -- have been arrested.

"We have arrested the three accused and they will be produced before court tomorrow," Rohtak SP Shanshank Anand told PTI over phone.

A case under section 354 (assault or criminal force with intent to outrage woman's modesty) and section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) have been registered against them, he said.

The incident triggered spontaneous indignation from women rights activists, with National Commission for Women chairperson Lalitha Kumarmangalam asking the authorities to take appropriate action against he accused.

Both sisters confronted the accused, with one of the girls even hitting the youths with her belt.

The entire incident, recorded by a passenger on mobile phone, went viral both on television and social media. It showed the two girls using hand and belt to thrash the eve teasers, who appeared to be taken by surpise.

The parents of the two girls lodged an FIR with Haryana police against the three youths informing that the molesters got down at the Kansla village in Rohtak.

The victims in their complaint alleged that they were "teased" by some youths in a Haryana Roadways bus when they were going to their college on Friday.

When the victims objected, one of the accused started beating them up.

Not go give up easily, the girls fought with the accused as fellow passengers remained mute spectators. One of the victims even hit the accused with a belt, police said.

One of the girls said, "They threatened us and abused us. One of them touched my sister inappropriately. They started making obscene gestures ... After heated exchanges, one of the boys called his friends asking him to beat us up. One of them beat my sister while two others caught hold of me.

"Then, I whipped out my belt at thrashed them. They pushed us out of the bus when it slowed down," she narrated.