Wariyapola Incident No. 2 -- Ethmale Incident

Wariyapola No. 2 -- Ethimale
 An ear-shot from girl to youth ....
during musical show ... 
in presence of crowd

Though a youth was subjected to a slap on the ear by a girl in Wariyapola recently which incident was analysed in various manners, it nevertheless became a memorable souvenir regarding harassment to women on the roads. Some NGOs too said the same thing. This assault-reply programme has now seems to have spread to villages and cities as well. 

Another similar incident where a young man was assaulted by a girl in the presence of a large crowd was reported day-before-yesterday from Moneragala, in Ethimale area. The young man who is supposed to have tried to sexually harass a 22 year old attractive girl by feeling her body and squeezing by pressing forward among the crowd when she was watching a musical show held in Ethimale area was thus subjected to this assault. 

After this incident the musical show had to be temporarily stopped and when the organisers intervened, the suspect-youth had been taken into custody by Ethimale Police.  

The youth taken into custody was a 28 year old resident of Hetekella,in Ethimale area. It is learned that he had come to Sri Lanka recently after being employed overseas and when the music was in progress, he had got close to the girl and in the instance when he was touching her, she had gone into a temper and following and imitating the Wariyapola girl, had slapped him on the face, it is understood.

(The video of the incident has still not been released).

Ethimale Police are conducting further inquiries.