KANNUR: The perpetrator said sorry and the victim agreed to forget it, but the social media is in no mood forgive the former. It was around 5 pm on March 22 that students of Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering and Technology, Korom, Payyannur, organised a flash mob in the payyannur bus stand to advertise the college union's Multi Fest, scheduled to begin on Monday.
The dance attracted crowd and the students danced rhythmically, until a middle aged woman suddenly entered the scene and slapped one of the girl students in the flash mob on her left cheek.
Harsha, the third-semester student, was taken aback but later agreed not to file a complaint with the police after Sudha admitted to her mistake with the union members and apologised to the victim.
But when the visuals of the event went viral in the last two days the social media chose to take it as an attempt to moral policing. Hundreds of posts and comments insisted that the woman's act was an instance of moral policing as she chose to beat a girl for dancing with the boys out in the open.
Some, however, took the woman as the girl's mother and said she had every right to beat her, for her 'public performance'. When contacted, Sudha admitted that she was sorry for the act and what happened was out of an impulse. "I am a palliative care worker," she said. "One of my patients was seriously ill at Pariyaram Medical College.
“These students were blocking the road for nearly an hour and police was not controlling them." The College union office-bearers however claimed they had taken the permission of the police to organise the flash mob and they never blocked the road.
