Molesters flee bleeding from the clutches of a karate girl in Barasat, West Bengal

The 16-year-old girl was a target of a group of boys in Barasat and, when they decided to pick on her, they made a wrong choice because she used her karate skills to send the duo bleeding and fleeing – they even threatened to return to take revenge.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 8 September 2015.

As she has explained – due to increased cases of violence and sexual assaults against girls in the locality, she had started learning karate a year ago. She wanted to be able to defend herself because the police do not usually involve in these cases because of political patronage enjoyed by the hoodlums.
The other day there was this news of a Brazilian girl who had caught a thief by using jiu-jitsu – she held in a grip for 20-minutes till the police arrived on the scene.
The message is loud and clear – apart from carrying pepper sprays and small weapons in the handbag and sporting long nails, the way to fight out of trouble is to become an expert in martial arts like karate, judo and jiu-jitsu.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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#Nirbhaya #pepperspray #ubercab It has been revealed by a firm that sells pepper sprays that the sale of this product was negligible till the Nirbhaya rape incident and, suddenly, the demand of this spray has increased. This is because it is a non-lethal weapon and an effective one.
As the owner of the outlet explained - whenever any case of crime against women makes the headlines, the sale of the pepper spray increases. He added that after the recent Uber cab incident, the average sale, which was earlier 7,500 cans a month, has doubled in NCR. Moreover, they get online queries for the product and many go in for online purchase.
This product is sold in 6,000 pharmaceutical shops in the city and only 3,500 are registered retail outlets which also sell pepper sprays. The number of customers who arrive to buy pepper spray at these shops has reportedly increased by 30%.
Bulk orders usually come from BPOs, the aviation sector, banks, sales-related offices, real estate firms and media houses in the NCR. The price usually varies from Rs 150 to Rs 500 in sizes varying from 10gm to 55gm.