The garment is designed to help women ward off unwanted sexual advances by detecting the touch of a potential assailant and delivering 82 electric shocks. And it’s smart enough to contact the local police station as well as a victim’s family alert them she’s in danger.

SRM University student Manisha Mohan, 20, (located in Chennai) is one of the creators of the project. She calls the invention “a retaliation against menaces in society.”

The slip-like piece looks like an average white nightgown lined with a polymer. It is form-fitted to the body and can apparently be worn with a dress or skirt. The students say studies have shown that attackers often reach for a woman’s breasts first, so the bra-area is outfitted with a series of sensors “calibrated to detect pinching and squeezing.”

Mohan told the Daily Beast  that once a pressure censor is activated, the garment sends out an electric shock so strong that when she tried it out, it left burn marks on her skin for weeks–the side that touches the skin is insulated so that the wearer doesn’t feel any of the shock.

Mohan further explained that a woman can flip an electric switch attached to the waist of the garment when she feels she is in potential danger. The slip comes equipped with a GPS device designed to be programmed by the wearer to send an SMS alert to family an to the nearest police department when she’s in trouble.

The students are in the process of launching the product and hope to have available for purchase within a few weeks.