{"id":243,"date":"2026-02-28T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philosopical-falcon.w5.wpsandbox.pro\/2019\/12\/19\/travel-copy-copy-2-copy-copy-2-copy-copy-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:24:51","slug":"foreign-woman-traveller-faces-harassment-on-south-mumbai-street-posts-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/foreign-woman-traveller-faces-harassment-on-south-mumbai-street-posts-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign woman traveller faces &#8216;harassment&#8217; on south Mumbai street, posts video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harassment.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harassment.jpg 612w, https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harassment-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harassment-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A foreign woman traveller has accused two men of harassing her on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/mumbai\/mumbai-news\/article\/maharashtra-govt-to-speed-up-mumbai-river-clean-up-remove-cattle-sheds-23618508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mumbai<\/a>\u00a0street and posted a video of her experience on a social media platform, prompting the police to launch a search to trace the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident took place in south Mumbai, a police official said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman, identified as Ines Faria, is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/mumbai\/mumbai-crime-news\/article\/maharashtra-youtubers-son-brutally-attacked-after-exposing-illegal-markets-in-mira-road-area-of-thane-district-23551699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTuber<\/a>&nbsp;who has been travelling in India for the past two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" controls src=\"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2191c90dcdc5410aafedf239ce48e14e.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In south Mumbai, two unidentified men allegedly followed her and kept asking for photographs with her despite her refusal, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video she posted, two men can be seen persistently approaching her for selfies. They continued to follow her for nearly 15 minutes even as she repeatedly declined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a note posted on her Instagram page, Faria wrote, &#8220;This was the first time something like this happened to me in India, and I have been here for two months now. Most of my experience has been beautiful, kind and welcoming. But this day was different.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They kept following us, asking for photos even after I said no multiple times. I did not feel comfortable, and they were super pushy. They followed us around for over 15 minutes and it started to feel really overwhelming. At some point I had to physically push them away just to create space. Just a reminder that &#8216;no&#8217; is a full sentence,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Satyanarayan Chowdhary said the local police and the Deputy Commissioner of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/mumbai\/mumbai-crime-news\/article\/criminals-exploit-firs-on-maharashtra-police-website-to-scam-victims-in-mumbai-23618504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Police<\/a>&nbsp;(Zone 3) have launched an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They are already on the job. Proper legal action will be taken,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police are currently trying to identify and trace the accused.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign woman traveller has accused two men of harassing her on a\u00a0Mumbai\u00a0street and posted a video of her experience<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-feature-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbaismartcity.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}