Celina Jaitly says 'A man flashed his private parts at me & the teacher said it was my fault' amid the Kolkata rape-murder case

Amid the Kolkata rape and murder case, actress Celina Jaitly has narrated the harrowing experience she faced during her childhood. The actress shared a post on Sunday and wrote- “THE VICTIM IS ALWAYS AT FAULT: In this pic I was in 6th grade only when boys from a nearby university started to wait outside my school. They would follow the school rickshaw making catcalls all the way home everyday. I pretended not to notice them and few days later because of that they started throwing stones at me in the middle of the road to get my attention. Not one bystander batted an eye.”

She added, ““I was told by a teacher: It was because I was ’too westernised and did not wear loose clothes and did not tie my hair in two braids with oil it was my fault!’ It was also at this age when a man first flashed his private parts to me while waiting for the school rickshaw in the morning. For many years I blamed myself for this incident which I kept to myself running the words of the teacher again and again in my mind that it was MY FAULT!”

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“In 11th grade I still remember they cut the wire of my scooty’s brakes because I was not acknowledging the university boys who heckled and called me rude names & left lewd notes on my scooty. My male class mates got scared for me and told our teachers. My class teacher called me and told me, ‘You come across as a FORWARD type of girl, riding a scooty and wearing jeans to extra classes with short open hair that’s why boys think you are of a loose character’. It was always my fault,” Celina continued.