Sexual Harassment in a residential area

Description

I was walking down the 15th main and just turned into the 16th cross in HSR layout sector 4 when I heard the sound of a scooter behind me. So I moved to the left hand side of the road. That particularly short stretch is a little dark as there are no houses on either side of the road and the trees are tall and thickly grown hiding the light from the street lamp. After a couple of minutes I realised that the scooter hadn't overtaken me, just as I realised this and turned my head to see the scooter rider put out his left hand and grabbed my right breast. I was wearing a thick sweater because it was late January and cold in the evening. Even so I felt completely violated and screamed out an abuse. Fortunately the sound actually came from my throat. When I realised that I shouted again. He had grabbed my breast and taken off immediately but when he heard me abuse him loudly he stopped and turned and made as if to return, but at that moment a young man turned the corner and I think that made him take off fast. I thought he would turn and get on to the 17th cross so I turned and went on to that road but he just disappeared. I can still remember vaguely his face and the fact that he was on an old scooter - vespa or lambretta - and was wearing a jacket. For more than a month I was scared everytime I walked on the road and heard a vehicle behind me. However, gradually with the support of friends and family and through prayer I overcame that. I am a Professor, I train people to report crimes, to resist, to fight gender discrimination and all that and here was I a middle aged woman perceived to be strong and confident shattered by an incident like that. It wasn't the first time but something like that had happened after a long time, I had let my guard down as I was on sabbatical at that time and rarely went out. I didn't report to the police as I was I didn't know what I would tell them - no vehicle number, no definite description of the criminal. I wish I had, just reporting that something like this had happened may have made the police alert.