Eve Teasing

(a) What is eve-teasing? (b) Who are the common victims? (c) Who are the common eve-teasers? (d)
What are the causes of eve-teasing? (e) What are its effects? (f) What measures should be taken
against eve-teasing?
Eve teasing means teasing the girls in an unfair and indecent way by unruly people causing mental
torture to the girls. Eve teasing in recent days has become a great problem' for the common people.
Most of the time school and college going girls fall a victim to Eve-teasing. Three or four teenager
boys or even more grown up boys are seen standing at the corner of the road. They wear strange
fashionable dress and long hair. Some of them smoke. When they see any young girl or woman
passing by, they pass comments towards them. At this the girls or women feel very embarrassed
and dishonoured. Eve-teasers even do not hesitate to tease the mother of a
situation has become very difficult for girls. If anyone protests Eve-teasing, the teasers become
violent and threaten the person who protests. They even threaten the girls to death or physical
torture. In this regard, it is very difficult to tolerate the situation. Girls are afraid of going out. They
even feel insecured to go to schools and colleges. Government has become quite aware of stopping
this malpractice. Government has already empowered mobile courts to stop eve-teasing. Anyone,
convicted of harassment of stalking of women will face a year in jail or a fine about 70 dollars or
both. The mobile court has given authority to give punishment to the eve-teasers at once. Education
Ministry has also initiated with the declaration that 13 June as the Eve-Teasing Protection Day
which is encouraged to protect this social evil.