Our Correspondent :
A young woman, sitting with a man, was smoking near Rajshahi’s Circuit House Road-a public space where people go to unwind-on Sunday afternoon.
All of a sudden, a man appeared on the scene and started shouting at the woman, asking her to leave immediately.
Soon, some other men joined him in rebuking the woman for “smoking in a public place”.
A video of the incident that went viral on social media yesterday showed the man repeatedly and rudely telling the woman to put out her cigarette and leave.
The young woman tried to argue, asking the man who was shouting what it was that she had done wrong. She pointed out that there were several men nearby who were smoking just as she was.
The mob that formed around the woman and her friend started getting louder and at one stage she had to leave, humiliated.
While she was leaving, someone in the mob was heard saying that “this kind of insolent behaviour is a reason for rape”.
