Last month a Swiss woman was attacked in the country and a British tourist told how she jumped out of her hotel window fearing a man was trying to molest her.
Co-inventor Manisha Mohan said: “A person trying to molest a girl will get the shock of his life the moment pressure sensors get activated.”
She explained that she and colleagues Niladri Basu and Rimpi Tripathy decided to put the wiring into the clothing after a survey showed most women were first groped on their breasts.The women are protected from the current by polymer insulation in the bra. The makers are currently fine-tuning the design - hoping the garment will be on sale by the end of this month.
“Studying in a convent girls' school, we were always taught to be good to everyone around and bear a cheerful smile.
“After stepping into the real, cruel world we realised that our smile could not last for long as the threat to our purity and integrity always lingered on.
“Lawmakers take ages to come up with just laws and even after that, women are unsafe.
Hence, we have initiated the idea of self-defence, which protects the women from domestic, social and workplace harassment.”
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