Richa Chadha on Samyuktha Hegde’s assault case: The world doesn’t need moral policing from sanctimonious aunties

Bollywood actress Richa Chadha has come out in support of South actress Samyuktha Hegde as she was allegedly assaulted by a woman just for wearing workout clothes at a park. Samyuktha shared a video of the entire incident in which a woman named Kavitha Reddy, who also happens to be a Congress leader, misbehaved with her and her friends for wearing sports bra in Bengaluru park.

Richa condemned moral policing and stated that respect is a two-way street.

Samyuktha had shared a video of the incident which went viral in no time. Sharing one such viral video, Richa tweeted, “Just because you think someone isn’t dressed like they ought to, in YOUR opinion, gives you no right to charge towards them or slap them. The world doesn’t need more moral policing, especially not from sanctimonious aunties. Plz behave. Respect is a 2 way street.(sic)”

https://twitter.com/RichaChadha/status/1302221285418704896?s=20

Sharing about the whole incident, Samyuktha took to her Instagram account and shared a lengthy post. The actress wrote, “After being in a democracy and following all the norms of social distancing, we were abused and ridiculed by Kavitha Reddy and the mob in Agara Lake for practising our hoolahoop while wearing sportswear. Despite being polite and trying to solve the problem, the lady hit my friend and used disparaging remarks about me and my friends Was extremely disappointed with how the police who came to the location behaved, like nothing was wrong and spoke to her with respect while asked us to be quite. The cops stood there while her mob harassed us and even after requesting the police continuously, they decided to stand there and support this (proof on igtv).”

Samyuktha further revealed that she had filed a complaint and also requested people for their support. “Yesterday was really hard and it was so disturbing to go through this. When we went to the police station, everyone there already knew her and spoke to her nicely and saw us like we were wrong. The only police who spoke to us with some respect and told her she was wrong was the inspector is the hsr police station muni reddy, he asked us both to file our respective complaints and he left. We wrote the complaint and gave it to the police. The police present there refused to give us an acknowledgement for the same. Its not easy being strong around people who are trying to break you, and having to listen to so many people harass us for doing nothing. THIS IS JUST WRONG. I request you all for your support(sic)” she wrote further.

You can check her entire post and video of the incident below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEvjZeOllAX/

Samyuktha had also tagged Bangalore police in her posts. Netizens also expressed their displeasure over this moral policing.

On the work front, Samyuktha made her silver screen debut with Kannada film ‘Kirik Party’. Later, she made her presence felt in shows like  ‘MTV Roadies’, ‘Bigg Boss Kannada’ (2017) and ‘MTV Splitsvilla’. She even became the first runner up of ‘Splitsvilla’.

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