Around 50 girls have said they will not go to college in Bareilly unless proper security arrangements are made for them. In wake of a teacher getting gangraped along a state highway in the district, the girls complained to the police about constant eve-teasing by local youths.
The girls and their parents from Dhaneli and Aurangabad villages met the police in Shahi, a town near Bareilly and said that the local men made obscene comments and obstructed their movement on the road to Dunka Inter College, police station in-charge Harcharan Singh said on Wednesday.
On receiving their collective complaint, an FIR has been filed and two youths have been arrested while a hunt is underway for others, Singh said.
Dhaneli Gram Pradhan Naunesh Kumari said a similar incident took place with her two college-going daughters a few days ago and has decided not to send them to college until the police takes guarantee of their security.
Adequate patrolling will be done in the areas leading to the college and police personnel in plain clothes will also be deployed, said DIG Bareilly Ashutosh Kumar.
Meanwhile, the principal of the college, Vinod Kumar, has also written a letter to SSP Bareilly and other senior officials following the girls’ complaint.
A teacher was allegedly abducted in broad daylight and gang-raped in a field along a state highway linking Delhi- Lucknow National Highway 24 on Tuesday, days after the Bulandshahr gangrape incident.
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