A 33-year old marketing manager claimed that she was harassed by five bus drivers at the Bukit Jalil LRT Station. She said that she was waiting for her colleague in her car near the station last week, when a RapidKL bus pulled up behind her and started honking.
She explained: “I moved forward, but the driver continued honking and came close until I was wedges between two buses. A middle-aged man wearing a RapidKL uniform began banging on my window and shouting”.
She added that she pulled out of the lane, but the honking continued. She then parked her car a short distance away and walked towards the bus to get the driver’s name, when suddenly, five men in RapidKL uniform, including the man who hit her window, surrounded her and shouted expletives and moving suggestively.
“The middle-aged man started pushing himself close to me as his friends cheered him on”.
“One of them slapped me on my left cheek when I tried to defend myself,” she said, adding that she took out her phone to photograph them. Fortunately, her colleague arrived and they fled to her car. She was shaking in fear, and had to stop for a few minutes to calm down.
The 33-year-old said that although 10 people had witnessed the harassment, no one responded to her cries, which made the traumatic experience every worse.
The victim lodged a report at the Subang Jaya police station later, which was then forwarded to the Cheras district police staton. According to Cheras OCPD ACP Mohan Singh, the case is being investigated under Section 323 and Section 509 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt and outrage of modesty.
Source: The Star
