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Love birds on the run as WC plays moral police

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Posted online: Friday , February 29, 2008 at 07:08:45
Updated: Friday , February 29, 2008 at 07:28:51


Bhubaneswar, February 29: Love birds had a tough time on Friday at a popular dating point in Bhubaneshwar as Orissa State Commission For Women (SCW) along with police took on the role of moral police driving out 200 young couples.

A team of SCW headed by its chairperson Namita Panda made a surprise visit to the Science Park.

Nearly 200 young couples were driven out of the park with help of police.

Panda said she was prompted to raid the park because of rising cases of unwed mothers and rape on false promise of marriage by youngmen in the capital.

“Most of the victims (of pre-marital pregnancy and rape) had told me that three parks (name not divulged) were being used as dating points in the city by young couples”, she said.

“I was surprised to see many girls in their college uniform sitting hand-in-hand with young boys. I found several pairs taking help of umbrellas to get more intimate in the public place,” said the SCW chairperson.

“I am, in fact, hurt and amazed over the changing attitude of the girls’’ in a conservative society like in Orissa,” she told PTI.

‘One of the girls in college uniform told me that she was sitting with the boy whom she loved and wanted to marry,” Panda said adding her words of caution motivated the girl who promised on the spot not to come to the park with her lover before marriage.

The SCW, however, asked the police not to take any action against the boys and girls. “They were students and in tender ages. Therefore, we wanted to allow them to go free,” said another member of the SCW team.

On her way back to the Commission office, Panda also asked the police to pull down certain roadside hoardings displaying women in ‘bad taste’.

The SCW was of the view that rise in atrocities against women had its roots in attitude of youths.

‘‘The SCW has written a letter to the Commissioner of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation not to allow hoardings or any publicity materials which are likely to have negative impact on the society,’’ Panda said.

Letters were also issued to different park authorities asking them not to entertain young boys and girls to spend time after skpping classes in colleges and schools, she said.

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moral nonsense by vishal on 03 Mar 2008

time after time these cases of moral policing keeps happening in India. We have to decide once and for all if we are a democracy of adults responsible for their own actions ? or a nanny state inhabited by immature adults who need the state to interfere, direct and control evey aspect of our life. If it's not the state it's some extra judicial authority like shive sena or bajrangi dal or muslim league. All trying to force their ideas of what is good or bad , right or wrong on the FREE citizens of India. Ridiculous !!!!!

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