To curb eve-teasing incidents in the city, the district police, in its ‘Romeo free drive’ on Sunday night rounded up 125 hoodlums from the Mehrauli-Gurugram road for allegedly misbehaving with women.
Out of the 125 arrested , 11 persons were arrested under the Excise Act and were kept in sector 29 and DLF Phase-2 police stations. The drive was carried out on Sunday on the direction of the Gurygram Police top brass under the supervision of ACP (crime) Usha Kundu. A team of Sector-29, DLF Phase-2 and Women Police Station sector-51 including Station House Officer (SHO’s) were involved in the drive. Also hundreds of police personnel from ‘Durga Shakti Rapid Action Force’ had also joined hands with the police force and rounded up 125 molesters from the mall mile area.
Gurugram police had deployed dozens of policemen along with women police personnel in a civvies outside every mall in wake of increasing crime against women.
“The drive was launched in the wake of the recent increase in incidents of eve-teasing in the city,” said ACP (crime), Usha Kundu. She added that the operation was carried out as working girls were feeling insecure during the night.
“The drive was from 8 pm last night till 1 am. Majority of the miscreants were arrested after pubs closed around 1 am. They were either misbehaving with girls or passing comments on women visitors,” said Subhash Boken spokesperson Gurugram police.