--- title: Watch Two Sisters Beat Alleged Sexual Harassers on Bus in India description: Two students in the northern state of Haryana physically beat three men on a bus who allegedly sexually harassed them canonical: https://time.com/3611667/two-women-beat-sexual-harassers-bus-india/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-01T16:59:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:28:10.204Z article:section: World og:title: Watch Two Sisters Beat Alleged Sexual Harassers on Bus in India og:description: Two students in the northern state of Haryana physically beat three men on a bus who allegedly sexually harassed them og:url: https://time.com/3611667/two-women-beat-sexual-harassers-bus-india/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cdc88dadadd93a4/69876b8d0b72e3943f6dc388/459776730.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: INDIA-WOMEN-CRIME-INTERNET og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Two Sisters Beat Alleged Sexual Harassers on Bus in India twitter:description: Two students in the northern state of Haryana physically beat three men on a bus who allegedly sexually harassed them twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cdc88dadadd93a4/69876b8d0b72e3943f6dc388/459776730.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch 2 Women Beat Their Alleged Harassers on a Bus in India by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 1, 2014 4:59 PM CUT  Indian sisters Pooja (L), 19, and Aarti, 22, are photographed at their home in the district of Sonepat on December 1, 2014\. Two Indian sisters were showered with praise and cash on December 1 after a video of them thrashing three alleged molesters on a moving bus was widely replayed. Arti and Pooja Kumar, aged 22 and 19, were allegedly harassed by the men on a crowded bus last week while returning home in Rohtak, a district of largely rural Haryana state that borders New Delhi. Indian sisters Pooja (L), 19, and Aarti, 22, are photographed at their home in the district of Sonepat on December 1, 2014\. Two Indian sisters were showered with praise and cash on December 1 after a video of them thrashing three alleged molesters on a moving bus was widely replayed. Arti and Pooja Kumar, aged 22 and 19, were allegedly harassed by the men on a crowded bus last week while returning home in Rohtak, a district of largely rural Haryana state that borders New Delhi.AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 1, 2014 4:59 PM CUT Two students in the northern state of Haryana wailed on three men on a bus who they say sexually harassed them. The women, two sisters named Aarti and Pooja, were on their way home in the Rohtak district when 19-year old Pooja says the men “threatened and abused” them, according to the [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30272204 "undefined"). When the men wouldn’t stop touching them, and after no other passengers came to their aid, Pooja and her sister started beating them with their belts. The men have since been arrested and charged with assault. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30272204 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3611667/two-women-beat-sexual-harassers-bus-india/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3611667/two-women-beat-sexual-harassers-bus-india/"},"headline":"Watch 2 Women Beat Their Alleged Harassers on a Bus in India","datePublished":"2014-12-01T16:59:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:28:10.204Z","description":"The men have been arrested and charged with assault","url":"https://time.com/3611667/two-women-beat-sexual-harassers-bus-india/","keywords":["feminism","women","India","assault","bus","sexual harassment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cdc88dadadd93a4/69876b8d0b72e3943f6dc388/459776730.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cdc88dadadd93a4/69876b8d0b72e3943f6dc388/459776730.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"INDIA-WOMEN-CRIME-INTERNET","caption":"INDIA-WOMEN-CRIME-INTERNET","creditText":"AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3611667/two-women-beat-sexual-harassers-bus-india/","name":"Watch 2 Women Beat Their Alleged Harassers on a Bus in India"}}]}] ```