A woman, in her mid 20s decides to usher into the new year by going to a party and pays the price by getting molested by a mob in spite of police presence and in full public view; she yells and screams for help as a few perverted men tear her dress below the waist;

even her companion at the party – a young man of almost same age – is unable to help her when in the course of being pulled and pushed, the woman falls down and the perverts get another chance to outrage her modesty for nearly ten minutes;
the watchful camera of a newspaper photographer catches the shameful incident and the matter is brought to light; the police initially pretends ignorant; as the story is published by the newspaper and followed up by many news channels, the police tries to wash off its hands saying that the victim had not come forward to lodge a complaint with them;
five men seen in the pictures clicked by the photographer have been detained for interrogation; the victim and her friend have not been identified yet (till I got my last updates on the news); a phone call to the newspaper office helped the newspaper reporters and the police team to search the Ghatkopar chawls to detain the five men;

This is what the historical Gateway of India witnessed on New Year’s Eve; The footage of the incident on various news channels stunned everyone as Mumbai is considered the safest city for women.

Mumbai of late is becoming more infamous than popular. While the Mumbai Bomb Blasts rocked the nation, this incident has shocked the nation.