Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (KD/GA)
Mangalore Mar 29: Mayor Vijaya Arun said that a resolution condemning the assault on corporator Sonia D’Souza will be taken up at the corporators’ council meeting.
She will also meet the deputy commissioner with the resolution urging him to direct the police to take serious action on assaulters of corporator Sonia D’Souza.
She was not ready to file a complaint on the issue. But the police said that since FIR is already filed, the matter will be resolved in the court.
However, it was quite strange to hear from some corporators that it was Sonia's mistake that she had gone over dinner with some men in the night. Some of them even asked "What business did she have to go to the restaurant late at night?"
Reacting to these comments by some corporators a female student of a prestigious college said that it is quite irresponsible on the part of corporators to blame Sonia. "It quite clear that she was not partying or loitering about. Reports have confirmed that she had gone to meet Oscar Fernandes along with other party workers. It was along with those party workers that she went to dine. Is it wrong? Even if she was on personal party, who are these men to assault her? What right do they have? Are they law-keepers or else moral police? Don't we have the right to dine with those who we would like to," she questioned.
Perhaps this is not only her opinion but even the voice of many more women of the city who have had similar experience. The self-proclaimed moral police are insulting men and women under the pretext that they are the protectors of law and culture. "But I do not know which is this law that allows anyone to be insulted in a public place when he/she has not anything wrong," shot out a lady lecturer while speaking to this correspondent.
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