Mangaluru, Aug 25: A day after she was slapped and humiliated in a crowded marketplace in the coastal city for requesting the Bajrang Dal activists not to assault her senior belonging to another community, the female employee of a supermarket took a shocking U-turn on Tuesday and accused the victim of trying to pull her into his car.
Shakir, a 28-year-old Muslim youth working for supermarket at Attavar in the city was on Monday evening stripped, tied to an electric pole and beaten by a group of miscreants belonging to Sangh Parivar for allegedly being in company of his female colleague belonging to Hindu community.
The woman was also allegedly slapped and humiliated in the public by the same miscreants for trying to come to her Muslim colleague's defence. However, it is learnt that the girl changed her statements at least thrice during the investigation and ultimately she filed a complaint against the victim accusing him of trying outrage her modesty.
The 21-year-old woman, hailing from Belur, who joined the supermarket nearly three months ago, also addressed press persons on Tuesday and stated that her senior deserved the beating and thanked the assailants for rescuing her from her senior.
She said, after finishing her work in the super market, she was walking towards Nandigudde to board a bus to go to Shakitinagar. Meanwhile, Shakir came in his car and offered a drop. “When I refused to board his car he tired to forcibly pull me into the car,” she said.
She claimed that in the past too, the same man had misbehaved with her. “A few days ago, he had sent me an SMS offering me a drop to my house. I accepted and boarded his car. Soon he started misbehaving with me and touched me inappropriately. Unable to bear his misbehaviour I had alighted at Bikarnakatte,” she said.
“On Monday evening too, he offered had offered me a drop. When I finished my work and came out of the supermarket he was waiting for me in his car near KMC. When he held my hand forced me to get into the car, I screamed helplessly,” she said adding that a local youth came to her rescue and thrashed him.
She also slammed the police for arresting the assailants and demanded their immediate release, claiming that they had in fact trying to protect her from Shakir. She urged the police to initiate action against him and ensure that he would not misbehave with other female staff in the super market.
He also said that even though Shakir had been misbehaving and harassing her for a few weeks, she was scared to complain fearing losing her job as he was her senior. “Now I have decided to resign from the job by the month end and return home,” she added.
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