It is a widely acknowledged fact that women’s safety in India, be it in the villages or metros, is not adequate. It’s even more unfortunate that the country’s capital is deemed extremely unsafe for women. Reinforcing our belief that women’s security in Delhi in flimsy, was this recent Facebook post.

Radhika P Singh from Delhi, recounted the horror her friend faced when she was molested by an man in broad daylight and how the police harassed her instead of the accused.

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“His name is Nikhil and he tried to molest my friend.”

She was walking down M block (near barakhamba red light) Connaught Place, when this gentleman came and tried kissing her in broad daylight. This happened in one of the most crowded places and no, she was not dressed inappropriately (coz that is what many in our society think when a girl is harassed).

So, she got hold of the guy and started screaming at him, when some passersby came and helped her nab him. The worst mistake was to call the cops – they came 40 minutes after calling.

She posted a photograph of the offender, identified as Nikhil, narrating how he forcibly tried kissing Singh’s friend in Delhi’s popular Connaught Place area.

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Forcibly Kissing a Woman on Busy Street is not Molestation:

When cops arrived they take him aside, talk to him and then ask the victim to lodge a written complaint. She does it twice, which they reject for being ‘not clear’. When her friend submits a third one saying the incident was a case of molestation, the cops come up with a bizarre explanation: just trying to kiss a girl is NOT Molestation!!!!!!!!!

Singh further wrote that people standing and watching the chain of events said, “u know he is just a guy… Let him go”.

But what the cops then did is likely to spell fresh trouble for the victim – they passed the victim’s phone number to the stranger’s parents, who called her on Sunday night.

“…now she (the victim) fears the worst,” Radhika Singh wrote.

Clearly, Delhi cops seem to be the least concerned that their response would further dent the city’s image of being unsafe for women.