The Kolkata moral police is back, and this time they targeted a young couple on a local train.
In an altercation that broke out on Saturday night, a 24-year-old woman and her 28-year-old male friend, who boarded the train from Sealdah station, were yelled at by a group of passengers, who also shamed the woman for wearing jeans.
The woman recorded the incident on her mobile and posted it on Facebook.
In her post, she wrote that her friend and she requested few middle-aged men to shift a bit so that they could sit together but they refused to do so.
“We coud hear them saying, 'This is not the ladies compartment, go to the ladies compartment,'” she claimed in her post.
The altercation over the seat arrangement turned ugly when more passengers boarded the train. The men allegedly misbehaved with the couple.
The woman, who was wearing a jeans and t-shirt, was also subjected to public shaming for “obscene dressing,” she claimed in her post. “The metro case happened because of people of your generation,” she claimed the passengers said.
According to Mirror Now, the couple have filed a complaint with the Railway Police.
Kolkata is not new to making news on moral policing.
Earlier in May, a couple was thrashed by passengers for hugging each other in the Kolkata Metro. After a heated argument that turned to threats, the couple was dragged off the metro at the Dum Dum station and reportedly flogged by a mob of middle-aged to elderly people.
It was alleged that the boy was kicked, punched and pushed and when the girl tried to save him, she received a few blows as well.
She further added, this is a daily routine on buses and trains and asked if this was the behaviour expected of the older generation.
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