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Fall in love in India and risk a police thrashing

Wed Dec 21, 3:34 AM ET

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Outrage and protests mounted in India on Wednesday after TV channels showed police officers repeatedly slapping, punching and pulling the hair of young women on a date in a public park in a north Indian city.

Indian media reported one couple was so humiliated by the police action in front of TV crews they have not returned home.

"Is falling in love wrong? Who gave the police the right to beat and hit people and misbehave in such a manner," a woman in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state told Aaj Tak television news.

Since Tuesday, shocked TV viewers in India have been watching images of female officers pummelling and abusing crying young women in Meerut in what the media is calling "moral policing".

TV footage also showed male policemen with sticks surrounding the scared women and taking them to women officers who beat them. Several of their male companions were beaten also.

The police operation, termed "operation Romeo", in a popular park in Meerut on Monday was touted by police as a move to prevent sexual harassment of women.

It turned out to be something very different.....

mayth wrote:ummmmmm.....whats the point in that?

X'an Shin wrote:Oh man, first time through I thought it said IndiaNA.

Skorixor wrote:

X'an Shin wrote:Oh man, first time through I thought it said IndiaNA.

no beatings only happen when the gays get caught in the park in Indiana

X'an Shin wrote:

Skorixor wrote:

X'an Shin wrote:Oh man, first time through I thought it said IndiaNA.

no beatings only happen when the gays get caught in the park in Indiana

So how ARE your kidneys now, anyway?