Woman harassed at busy junction in Hyderabad, 2 held hours later

HYDERABAD: In a shocking incident, a Pune-based young woman, visiting her parents in the city, was allegedly harassed by two men right in front of the Panjagutta traffic police station at the busy Panjagutta junction on Saturday morning. The 28-year-old tweeted about the ordeal and how it happened despite her being in front of the police station waiting for a friend.
Within hours of her complaint, Hyderabad police nabbed the two men, Kuldeep Singh, a former auto driver, and Inder Singh, a jobless youth, both 31, at Nampally.

"Yesterday, I was waiting for a friend, I chose to stand in front of Panjagutta (traffic) police station, to feel safe until my friend arrived, who was 10 minutes away. I saw two men approach me in a car, one guy bald and the other with a dense beard. I looked away into my phone hoping nothing would happen. The guy in the driver seat made eye contact and said, get into the car, I will take you," tweeted the woman, who is a native of Hyderabad, but works for an NGO in Pune.
The two accused then allegedly went ahead only to return back and asked for the woman's phone number, while asking her, in Telugu, to get into the car.
Fed up with the persistent harassment, the woman said she screamed at them that she would complain to police. The two men, however, did not seem bothered and continued to ask for her phone number and asked her to complain to whoever she wanted.
"It is then that I got worried and ran into the station and found two traffic policemen, who accompanied me out to nab them, however, they had left (by then)," tweeted the woman.
Since the woman did not have the car number, she was sent to the Panjagutta law and order police station, where CCTV footage was analysed and the vehicle with the accused was detected.
According to police officers, the two borrowed the car from a friend. "Using CCTV, we nabbed the accused on Saturday itself and booked them under Section 70C of the Hyderabad City Police Act. They will soon be produced before a magistrate," Panjagutta sub-inspector Vijay Bhaskar said. An accused, Kuldeep Singh, is learnt to have been an auto driver, and the other, Inder Singh, was unemployed, police added.
Meanwhile, the incident has shaken the young woman. "Though I am from Hyderabad, I can't just take the way the city treats me. Sadly, nothing has changed, and it is only getting worse.
"Previously as well, I faced bitter experiences on a bus and train while travelling to Hyderabad and now this incident. In fact, after the ordeal, while I was returning to my home at Chaitanyapuri by the Metro, I was subjected to bad stares from a man. On complaining to Metro rail guards, they did nothing. How many complaints can I even report," the woman told TOI.