Women cops, in civil clothes, will be decoys to catch eve-teasers in Lucknow Now, Juliet squads set to patrol UP streets
decoys. She said decoys would be sent out randomly, three daily at different places, and if successful, it would be implemented across the city.
The police official said, “These women will be deployed in spots where complaints of eve-teasing are rampant.”
The anti-Romeo squads set up by the UP police immediately after the Yogi Adityanath government was sworn in, has also received considerable flak for harassing young couples, some of whom are cousins or brother-sister.
“There has been a perceptible decline in instances of eve-teasing around girls’ schools and colleges and main market areas. We had 23 dedicated squads and from March 23 to 31, 3,234 people were quizzed, one arrested and ten were let off after a warning. Only 725 were quizzed between April 1 to 7 and no arrests were made. The drive will run alongside phase two from now,” she said. Three people afflicted with Human Imm unodeficiency Virus (HIV), including two women, were allegedly humiliated and denied treatment at state/civicrun hospitals recently. The patients have approached the MDACS (Mumbai District AIDS Control Society), the nodal body to tackle HIV in the city, with their complaints.
One of the three victims, a 44-year-old woman, had gone to the state-run JJ Hospital following numbness in her hand. But she said the doctors at the ART (Anti-Retroviral Therapy) centre at the hospital shooed her away, saying, “Let ants run all over your body.”
The victim said, “I am suffering from numbness in my hand. When I showed it to the doctor at JJ Hospital’s ART centre, he mentioned, ‘eat sugar and let ants run all over your body.’”
“I went there for taking treatment not to listen to the arrogant words of doctors. It’s sheer humiliation and we cannot raise our voice as we have to see that person again,” she said. Another victim, a 54-year-old man, said he was not attended to at the civic-run Shatabdi Hospital when he had gone for a check-up.