Moral policing incidents on the rise but cops fail to act

Kochi | Thursday | 15th November, 2018

Summary:

The police, who reached the spot, asked the man if he had any complaints and let him off. “When police officers came, they asked us to get into the vehicle and we were taken to police station. KOCHI: Over a year after a gang of Shiv Sena members assaulted young men and women and chased them out of the Marine Drive despite police presence, three such incidents of moral policing were reported in the city in three days with the police remaining as mere spectators. We rejected his advances and he took a stone and broke the backlight of our scooter. He wanted to check whether she was carrying ganja,” said one among the youths.The woman’s friends intervened while residents sided with the man..