The two Indian sisters who were filmed hitting two men with a belt after allegedly being sexually harassed today revealed that they fought back to show that 'girls are not weak'.

Pooja, 19, and Aarti Kumar, 22, were verbally abused by three men in their early 20s on a bus in Rohtak, Haryana, last Friday - and have since become internet heroines for their retaliation.

The university students, who were on their way home from Rohtak Government College, turned on their abusers - and beat them up with a belt while fellow passengers watched.

Today, Pooja told MailOnline: ‘We encounter these kinds of incidents on a daily basis. It was only when the boys started misbehaving with a pregnant woman that we resorted to this.

‘We really thought to these guys a lesson and beat them up. We wanted to show that we girls are not weak and capable to defending ourselves. We really wanted to kick them.

‘After they got beaten they ran away, otherwise they would have continued to harass us. I am not regretting it. I did the right thing.’

The three men, from Asan village in Rohtak, had initially attempted to flirt with the sisters by giving out his phone number on a piece of paper, but things turned sinister when they refused him.

Coming to her sister's defence, Pooja removed her belt and began hitting, kicking and punching the man holding her sister until he let go.

Pooja said: ‘You see we have been tolerating these kind of things for long enough, but how long can we tolerate this?

‘Our patience was over when we saw a fellow lady passenger who was pregnant being abused and bullied by these hooligans than we decided to act and teach them a lesson.’

‘Women get harassed and abused everywhere in India and men haven’t learnt any lessons even after so many incidents. Every man has a mother and sister, but they still indulge in these things.’

Most of the passengers did nothing to help the girls, and neither driver not the bus conductor stepped in.

The film of the incident, which has been circulating on social media, shows one man attempting to separate the girls from the three men.

The victims even dialled the number of a women's helpline, but got no response.