A Mid-Day photographer captured three men allegedly molesting a female devotee during a religious procession. Trigger warning for molestation.
This is the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai, India, where devotees worship the Hindu god of prosperity, Lord Ganesh, and then immerse his idols into the sea.
On the final day of immersion, millions of devotees throng the streets of Mumbai on their way to immerse the city's most popular Ganesh idol known as "Lalbaughcha Raja" or King of Lalbaug, into the Arabian Sea.
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On Sept. 20, the final day of immersion, Atul Kamble, a photographer with the Mumbai tabloid Mid-day, captured these horrific images of men allegedly molesting a woman in the massive crowds.
Kamble, who was there to capture "mood shots," said he spotted a girl "battling her way through the crowd." He also noticed a group of men touching people excessively "in the guise of pushing them along."
Kamble said he observed one man "grab the girl, not once but several times, on the pretext of stabilizing himself."
