Dear Editor, I would like to express my deep concern regarding teasing of females on roads of Jammu through the medium of your esteemed daily newspaper that leads to heinous crime and require some stern steps by government in this direction to make roads of Jammu City free from such harassments for female. Eve-teasing is a sexual harassment comprising undesirable remarks, motions, honking, wolf-whistling, catcalling, openness, following, constant lewd gestures, and contact by outsiders in open regions. Unfortunately, it is an exceptionally normal peculiarity in Jammu City, experienced by females independent of their age and dress. There are numerous women who don’t consider gazing, heckling, undesirable remarks, and rough signals a type of provocation. It shows how normal these things have become these days. Commonly, in any case, this verbal provocation turns physical. Whatever sort of harassment it transforms into, the casualty likes to keep quiet, imagining that it will besmirch their family name assuming they reveal or report the episode. Many let these episodes go in light of the fact that, obviously, they don’t have the foggiest idea about the individual and they don’t have confirmation. In spite of women being appropriately covered or not they’re being whistled and harassed while being headed to school, school, colleges or work environments. It’s all a result of the shortfall of rigid road provocation laws in the country that has disturbed the circumstance. The government ought to guarantee severe implementation of laws to control the danger of road harassment so our little girls and sisters have a good sense of security in the city. To keep away from this assuming anybody is viewed as engaged with road provocation he ought to be totally rebuffed. In addition, female police faculty ought to be sent at police posts and grumbling cells ought to be set up at all business communities and outside instructive organizations with the goal that ladies can hold up protests at the earliest opportunity. The concerned authorities are therefore requested to look into this matter without further delay and take suitable steps to resolve the problem. Mool Raj.
