Anti-Rape Lingerie Invented by Indian Students Delivers Shock to Attackers

Months after a 23-year-old paramedical student was gangraped and thrown out of a moving bus along the roadside in the Indian capital, engineering students have come up with a new invention that will literally shock sexual assaulters. 

With the hope of protecting women in the country against atrocious sexual assault, Indian engineering students have created an 'anti-rape underwear' that will deliver electric shocks to the attackers, and also alert the police in the event of an attack.

The anti-rape underwear would deliver a 3,800 kilovolt shock to the attackers. It is fitted with a GPS that helps track the location and will automatically send text alerts to police and family.

The lingerie, which is dubbed as the Society Harnessing Equipment, is a camisole embedded with sensors and an electric circuit board. It was created by three students of SRM University Chennai.

The lingerie is fitted with pressure sensors around the bust area that detect unwanted force and is capable of delivering up to 82 electric shocks that can disable the attackers.

"A person trying to molest a girl will get the shock of his life the moment pressure sensors get activated. The GPS link and a cell phone transmitter would also send an SOS text to emergency services as well as to parents of the girl," student inventor Manisha Mohan, who helped develop the concept, was quoted as saying in The Times of India.

The lingerie is all set to hit the market later this month, and has been nominated for the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2013.