For nearly 30 years, crowds have gathered in Bengaluru's MG Road-Brigade Road Junction to ring in the New Year. Bengaluru was branded as a badly governed, unsafe city on social media, and blamed for every lapse. A TV journalist who says he was on Brigade Road till 1.45am, blogged that "there was no mass physical molestation" but both men and women were harassed. The police have scoured footage from the 40 CCTVs at the junction, but been unable to identify any incident of molestation. Bengaluru saw 756 cases of molestation in 2016, and 714 cases in 2015.

Source: Times of India January 15, 2017 05:37 UTC