Experience of a girl from Karaikudi, India
Experience of a girl from Karaikudi, India
(From the forumjar.com, re-casted by Colombocaner@gmail.com )
This incident happened in 1996 when I was in the 12th standard in school. I was attending a girls’ school where I was an average student. We used to have an occasional smoke during the school interval. I was not addicted to smoking but it felt like an adult when we smoked. For this we had a place outside the school premises which is used as some branch of a government office. As we were senior girls there was no issue of coming out of the school during the intervals and going back in. One day when I was alone in our smoking spot I was caught by two lady constables who were passing the narrow pathway. They told me that smoking in a public place is an offence and insisted that I accompany them to the police station. I have seen people smoking in public areas before and after this incident. However because of the way they were admonishing me and telling me that I have broken the law I was thinking maybe they were not lying.