Gauri-Sarda Joshi was waiting for her friend on a busy Pune street, skimming her book. But she couldn't focus, because of a young man staring at her, openly and intensely. A member of the committee tackling sexual harassment says: "When women complain about a man staring, there is usually no action, a warning at most. Kerala IPS officer Rishiraj Singh recently caused some controversy when he claimed that staring at a woman for more than 14 seconds was a punishable offence. (With additional reporting by Nisha Nambiar, Swatee Kher, Triveni Rangarajan, Neha Madaan, Afrah Ali, Satyanarayan Iyer and Tarini Puri)

Source: Economic Times February 12, 2017 07:49 UTC