The Mumbai police are at their wits' end as the number of face blackening incidents keep multiplying in the city.
There have been five cases of face blackening in the last four months itself, according to CNN-IBN:
- The latest incident took place on August 8, when the Shiv Sena's student wing attacked a teacher, for alleged indecency.
- A week before that, a lecturer from the prestigious JJ School of Arts was attacked by the Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, for allegedly molesting a student.
- In July, a teacher at the Mithila English High School was attacked by NCP and Sena activists.
- Before that, two doctors of a municipal hospital in Thane were attacked by Shiv Sena activists.
- In April, the NCP attacked a doctor Chhatrapati Shivaji hospital in Kalwa for alleged sexual harassment. It turned out to be the wrong doctor. [Link]
The culprits by and large have been student union activists. Quite an innovative way of launching political careers, you would say.
One Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena President, Abhijit Panse, has a novel way of putting it across, "The youth of this country don't need permissions from anyone to deliver justice."
Street justice, eh?
Well, you cannot expect much from street hoodlums, can you?
