At one incident every 55 minutes, India's stalking cases doubled in 4 years

"There are certain perceptions about stalking cases - they are not taken seriously by society or police," said Ranjana Kumari, director at the Centre for Social Research.

It was over a decade ago, but Isha Arora clearly remembers the day she was first stalked. She was 13 then and a Class VII student. She was going to a foreign language class close to her home in Ghaziabad. A man stopped her and told her he had been following her for months and that he was “in love” with her.

“He told me that he knew where I stayed, the school I went to and when I left home for tuition,” Arora said. “He even knew that I usually went out with my brother, but I was alone