Men use abandoned building to flash girls at dental college women's hostel

WOMEN students of Government Dental College who are staying in the ladies hostel of the college in Broadway have alleged repeated harassment by men who flash them from an abandoned nearby building which belongs to a private trust.

-  SINDUJA JANE

Around 350 students stay in the hostel, and they allege the abandoned building is being regularly used by unknown men as a place for drinking. The hostellers say they feel threatened and extremely uncomfortable when these men flash the students.

Narrating her experience, one of the hostellers says, "It was around 9.30 pm on a day recently when we saw a man standing in uilding and staring at us.

The didn't move for almost ur, we informed our hostel en who called the police on patrol and chased away all the men in the building." Students rue such incidents have become so frequent that they are forced to keep all the windows shut, which affects ventilation.