{"id":3792,"date":"2003-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/15\/2003-12-15-orissa-temple-institutes-novel-scheme-to-control-harassment-of-women\/"},"modified":"2003-12-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-15-orissa-temple-institutes-novel-scheme-to-control-harassment-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/15\/2003-12-15-orissa-temple-institutes-novel-scheme-to-control-harassment-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Orissa Temple Institutes Novel Scheme to Control Harassment of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/181_493113,000900030010.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 12, 2003: To curb harassment of women in its premises, a temple in Orissa has announced its own punishment for the guilty, which involves paying a hefty fine and also apologizing for their behavior. Concerned about recent incidents of harassment (called &#8220;eve-teasing&#8221; in India, though it goes far beyond mere &#8220;teasing&#8221;), the Managing Committee of the Paschimaswar temple, a temple dedicated to Lord hiva in Dhenkanal, said they would deal with the problem themselves. Instead of going to the nearest police station, a victim can just complain to temple officials and the punishment will follow, said temple Committee President Shiv Prasad Lenka. It was enforced against three young men from a nearby village who heckled and abused women during a marriage ceremony at the temple recently. &#8220;I personally rushed to the spot and requested them to stop but they did not listen. We organized a meeting of the temple committee on December 9 and summoned the three eve teasers,&#8221; Lenka said. The announcement of the punishment &#8211; paying US$44 to the temple committee and apologizing for their behavior &#8211; was made in the presence of hundreds of people. Police in the area are also happy. &#8220;This is a good step. Police is ready to help temple committee members in this campaign,&#8221; an official said.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceBHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 12, 2003: To curb harassment of women in its premises, a temple in Orissa has announced its,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}