Samyuktha Hedge assaulted for wearing sports bra in public

Samyuktha Hedge was assaulted for wearing a sports bra in a park in Bangalore.

Just when we thought that Indians are becoming progressive and women could finally live however they chose to, we saw a major setback when Samyuktha Hedge was assaulted publicly for wearing a sports bra to a park in Bangalore.

The South Indian actress was with 3 other friends when she was approached by an elderly woman and was later harassed by male locals for the same. Samyukhta said that she was accused of ‘Indecent behavior’ and one of her friends was also hit by the same woman who assaulted her.

Here is the video shared by her:

 

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Video 1 and 2, you can see the lady clearly (kavitha reddy) charging at my friend and attempting to hit her Video 3: after she tried to assault my friend, when we were waiting for the police to arrive some People in the park who knew her started supporting her and playing moral police and asking us if it is our culture to wear sports wear Video 4: this man in the red checkered shirt and about 10 men with her arrived right before the police did and started threatening us. His name is Anil, and you can clearly hear him threatening me. In my line of work even false news is enough to destroy my career and he threatened me exactly of that and the police stood there and just watched. This is when i decided to go live and have our side of the story put out there in the open After being in a democracy and following all the norms of social distancing, we were abused and ridiculed by Kavitha Reddy and the mob in Agara Lake for practicing our hoolahoop while wearing sportswear. Despite being polite and trying to solve the problem, the lady hit my friend and used disparaging remarks about me and my friends Was extremely disappointed with how the police who came to the location behaved , like nothing was wrong and spoke to her with respect while asked us to be quite. The cops stood there while her mob harassed us and even after requesting the police continuously, they decided to stand there and support this (proof on igtv) Yesterday was really hard and it was so disturbing to go through this When we went to the police station, everyone there already knew her and spoke to her nicely and saw us like we were wrong. The only police who spoke to us with some respect and told her she was wrong was the inspector is the hsr police station muni reddy, he asked us both to file our respective complaints and he left. We wrote the complaint and gave it to the police. The police present there refused to give us an acknowledgement for the same. Its not easy being strong around people who are trying to break you, and having to listen to so many people harass us for doing nothing. THIS IS JUST WRONG I request you all for your support 💛 @blrcitypolice #thisiswrong #punishkavithareddy

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People on Twitter were enraged after the video was shared and were disappointed to see how the actress was treated just for wearing sportswear in the park. See the tweets below.

 

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