Molesters, watch out! You're on camera this Ganpati

This Ganeshotsav itrsquos not just the elephant god who will be watching over your family Mumbai police has formed special squads to capture perverts who take advantage of huge crowds at Ganesh mandals and molest women on camera Police will show this clip to his family and friends to shame him and will of course register a caseAlso read MiD Day photographer Atul Kamble captures molesters on camera at Lalbaugcha Rajas immersion processionLast year midday photographer Atul Kamble had captured the shocking incident of perverts molesting women at the hugely popular Lalbaugcha Raja mandal An FIR was lodged against the unidentified men after middayrsquos report was published Police will be specially vigilant on important days during the festival and the visarjan day in order to nab molesters Pic for representationThe squads will be deployed at major Ganesh mandals in the city like Lalbaug Ganesh Galli Girgaum Andhericha Raja Sahyadri Mandal etc Policemen in plainclothes will capture the culprits on video and nab themThese pictures was clicked by Atul Kamble at the immersion procession of Lalbaugcha Raja in Parel a year ago An FIR was registered against the culprits following middayrsquos front page report on September 20 2013Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria said ldquoThese anti eveteasing squads will keep an eye on all places where there are huge crowds Some people come just to take advantage and misbehave with womenConstables will be in plainclothes on bikes or on foot and will record and catch these people in the actrdquo While around 12 video cameras have been provided to squads all over the city police will also record footage on their own mobile phonesAccording to the cops even if they manage to nab one person from the group it is easy to get the others Moreover the accused canrsquot deny the charges as there will be strong evidence against themThe squads are in the process of being assigned to various mandals Lalbaugcha Raja will have at least 1012 people watching over it sources said Special vigilance will be seen on important days of the festival and on visarjan day at the mandal as well as various chowpatties There are around 6712 mandals in the cityA good startPolice have already begun a trial version of this squad in the northern part of the city The team has booked 25 students of Nirmala College Kandivli Pahadi School in Goregaon and some people outside Dahisar station ldquoWe film people while sitting inside a car or on a bikeOur police officers are usually in plainclothes and after recording the act we catch one of the culprits show him the clip and summon his parents If necessary we register a case against the personrdquo explained Kishore Jadhav additional commissioner of police north regionIf all goes as per plan such squads will soon monitor areas outside schools colleges and railway stations to rein in molesters and harassers and bring them to book Leaves of all senior policemen have been cancelled and all have been asked to increase police presence on roads Cops have also started taking action against drug addicts on the streetsThere are around 115 visarjan points in the city of which 46 have been marked sensitive Around 58200 policemen 12 Rapid Action Force battalions 10 paramilitary battalions will be deployed to keep the city safe during the festival