<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The tragic death of an Indian schoolgirl has laid bare the consequences of "Eve-teasing" - a popular South Asian euphemism which many say trivialises the street harassment and assault of women.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The short CCTV video of two Indian girls riding bicycles starts off quite innocuously.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dressed in their school uniform - tunics, salwar bottoms and scarves - the teenagers are riding side by side on a near-empty road.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But within seconds, the calm of the scene is shattered.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two men on a motorbike overtake them and one of them pulls away the scarf of one of the girls. Immediately she loses her balance and her cycle moves right and collides with a second motorbike coming from behind.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As she and the riders fall on the road, the 17-year-old is run over by a third motorbike coming from the opposite direction.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The moment I saw my daughter, I knew she was dead," says her father Sabhajit Varma, who arrived at the scene within minutes after receiving a call from his niece - the other girl in the CCTV footage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Some people had gathered and we loaded her onto a tempo [a small vehicle used to transport goods] and rushed to a hospital," he told me on the phone from his home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Doctors said she was 'brought dead'. They said her jaw was shattered and she had died from severe injuries to her head," he said. "There were no last words, no goodbyes."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mr Varma's wife died eight years ago and after his two older daughters were married, the 17-year-old, the youngest of three, was the only one living with him. She was good at studies and wanted to be a doctor, he tells me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two days before her death, he said, she'd told him that some boys had been harassing her and other girls outside their school. Since then, his niece and other students have also told police that the young men used to hover around their school morning and evening, sometimes racing their bikes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His daughter's death has left Mr Varma heartbroken and angry. "My daughter was murdered. The men who killed her must be hanged," he says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The incident took place last month in Ambedkar Nagar district of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police have arrested three suspects - reports say at least one of them is a minor - and are looking for a fourth man. Since the tragedy, Mr Varma says, he's been visited by government officials, including a minister in the state, but not received any compensation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the footage of the incident went viral on social media and made headline news, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath warned those who harassed women on the streets that "Yamraj [the Hindu god of death] would be waiting for them at the next traffic crossing". BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>