{"id":1506,"date":"2018-06-25T16:28:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:07","slug":"moral-policing-in-local-train-near-kolkata-couple-harassed-woman-asked-to-not-wear-jeans-and-tees-while-travelling-in-local-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/moral-policing-in-local-train-near-kolkata-couple-harassed-woman-asked-to-not-wear-jeans-and-tees-while-travelling-in-local-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral policing in local train near Kolkata \u2013 couple harassed, woman asked to not wear jeans and tees while travelling in local trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another incident of moral policing, a Kolkata couple faced harassment onboard a local train while travelling from Sealdah in Kolkata to suburb Barrackpore. The incident took place <span data-term=\"goog_1087972506\">on Saturday<\/span> evening when a 28 year old man was returning from work with his 24-year old friend.<\/p>\n<p>The woman recorded parts of the conversation with the passengers in her phone and took to Facebook to narrate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a similar episode took place in the Kolkata Metro,\u00a0when a couple was harassed by some elderly persons for \u201cstanding too close\u201d to each other.<\/p>\n<p>According to the woman\u2019s social media post, on boarding the train from Sealdah <span data-term=\"goog_1087972507\">on Saturday<\/span> evening, the couple asked a middle aged man to move a bit to make space for them, which he refused downright. Later, the man along with some other men started misbehaving with them, and even made uncouth comments. According to the woman\u2019s Facebook post, a person asked the woman to not board trains wearing \u201csuch kinds of clothes\u201d. She mentioned in her post that she was wearing \u201cnormal regular jeans and a top\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1507\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1507\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"466\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The woman&#8217;s post on Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The couple filed a complaint with the Government Railway Police (GRP).<\/p>\n<p>(Cover Picture is representational)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another incident of moral policing, a Kolkata couple faced harassment onboard a local train while travelling from Sealdah in Kolkata to suburb Barrackpore. The incident took place on Saturday evening when a 28 year old man was returning from work with his 24-year old friend. The woman recorded parts of the conversation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}