LUCKNOW: When three college students were slapped and dragged out of parks by the much-famed 'anti-Romeo squads' ( ARS ) of UP police in March this year while they were spending quiet time with their female friends in parks, endless brickbats for the Yogi government had followed. Since then, the squads have had a peaceful time negotiating with and identifying stalkers from lovers.It's not because the incidents have shrunken. "Self-leadership communication techniques had to be deployed to deal with the cops here. Focus was on communicating with the patriarchal world, where we question the women more than we do the perpetrator. So we would tell the police personnel to take assertive leadership but not without being empathetic in the situation," said human resources management professor Himanshu Rai at IIM-L who led the course training.

Source: Times of India November 29, 2017 00:03 UTC