Stalker Attack
In keeping with the slightly new tradition of Unsafe Mumbai, actor Shruti Hassan was attacked in her house by a stalker, who reportedly followed her around everywhere. After she slammed the door on him in self-defence, screamed and followed, after he ran away, to alert the security, the man escaped nonetheless. She has now filed a police complaint with the Bandra Police station. And it turns out that it was a spot- boy from a film unit, who was stalking her. He has been arrested. Whether it is a security lapse, where he walked in after entering his name in the register, is another matter, but the fact remains that even the plush and supposedly free and safe cosmopolitan suburb of the city, Bandra, is also not free from the clutches of creeps.
Unsafe Mumbai
As if to consolidate that perception of unsafe Mumbai, a white paper on city’s crime released by the Praja Foundation says nearly 21% of their respondents felt insecure in the city. Some of their findings: