Days after the nation hailed two sisters Pooja and Aarti from small-town Haryana as 'serial bravehearts' and 'Rohtak sisters' for taking on alleged molesters inside a running bus, another video emerged which shows them beating up a young man who allegedly harassed them in a public park."
While the girls' village is celebrating as Haryana chief minister said the women would be honoured for their “act of bravery” on Republic Day, some questions are being raised about their 'serial acts of bravery'.
Many wonder why they never filed a police complaint and how an eye-witness seems available to film their action each time they are allegedly sexually harassed.
Interestingly, both the
videos don’t show the entire altercation and only the particular incident where girls are retaliating is shown.
Residents of Kansla village, from where the three accused, Deepak, Mohit and Kuldeep hail and who have been arrested and remanded to custody till 6 December, told reporters that the boys have been "falsely implicated".
According to a Facebook post, 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 wouldn't have sat idle. This is Haryana. Not Delhi," the Facebook post by Govind K Singathia says.
Eyewitnesses claims that it was not a case of alleged molestation but a dispute over seats. The seats, they claim, had been allotted to the three boys.
"I was sitting on seat number 3 in the same bus. The boys requested girls to vacate seat for an old lady but girls refused. Argument started over seats and the girls started abusing and hitting the boy. The boy was trying to save himself. The boys never teased the girls. I was travelling in the same bus," said an eye witness.
Meanwhile, three boys who were hoping to join the army, will not be drafted into the forces now. The army will not go ahead with the recruitment process of two of the three alleged molesters, who had cleared physical and medical tests for the force.
Army sources said the next step for the youths would have been a written test but since they have been booked under an FIR for such an act, they will be barred from further recruitment process.