One month later: UP CM Yogi's Anti-Romeo squads fizzle out in Meerut

There is consensus among the students that the crackdown has had some positive effect on the ground

The anti-Romeo squad seems to have fizzled out. Almost a month after Uttar Pradesh’s new chief minister Yogi Adityanath launched his ‘anti-Romeo squad’ initiative to crack down on sexual harassment of women at public places, Meerut has slipped back to its usual self, reports the Hindustan Times.

He announced the formation of the squads amid much fanfare and publicity. The police too in at least 11 districts of the country’s most populous state responded with alacrity: raiding parks, malls and colleges to deter eve-teasers.

According to the report in Hindustan Times, RG Girls’s College was one such