Even as the country remains enraged by the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata and the sexual assault of two four-year-old kindergarten kids Badlapur, students at two prominent colleges in the city are coming out to describe an ordeal of their own in accounts Anonymous posted on social media revealed that, for many years, students at Mithibai College and NMIMS University in Vila Parle have been facing harassment outside their campus.
The posts, purportedly by women at the two institutes described instances of inappropriate touching, groping, flashing and even masturbating by an unknown man lurking on the streets near their institutes. These stories were corroborated by several current and former students who spoke to The Free Press Journal.
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