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Delhi Police to hire additional 2,508 police women -Vishwa Mohan

-The Times of India After asking the Delhi Police to make women cops available at all the 180 police stations in the national capital, the Centre on Friday moved to recruit an additional 2,508 women police personnel for the city and asked all the states to replicate this model by increasing the number of women in police forces to 33% of their total strength. The Centre also asked all the states and...

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Parliamentary Panel Questions Delhi Police Chief

-Outlook A parliamentary panel today questioned the Delhi Police chief over the gang rape incident in the capital and said deficiencies like vacancies at officer level and lack of vehicles to patrol the streets existed. Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home to face questions on 'growing atrocities against women in Delhi'. Home Secretary R K Singh, who was also to appear before the panel, could not attend...

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A history of victimisation -Urvashi Dev Rawal

-The Hindustan Times Jaipur: Indian women are speaking out against violence, enraged by the gangrape of a 23-year-old inside a moving bus in Delhi. But past records show that women – especially in the hinterlands – who dare to speak up usually fight a lone battle against the system. Hindustan Times profiles a few courageous rape victims in Rajasthan, who are still awaiting justice. Bhanwari Devi (Bhateri, Jaipur district) Bhanwari Devi was gangraped in...

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Commissioner assures RTI activist Abraham of police protection

-The Hindu Bangalore: Police Commissioner B.G. Jyothi Prakash Mirji, who was summoned by the Lokayukta Court on Tuesday for failing to provide police protection to RTI activist T.J. Abraham, assured the court that he would immediately provide him with security cover. Mr. Abraham, who has filed cases in the Lokayukta Court against several powerful politicians, bureaucrats as well as businessmen, had recently filed a memo to the court stating he apprehended threat...

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Where women fear to tread -Mahim Pratap Singh

-The Hindu In the State that leads in incidents of rape, the shame-inducing statistics are pushing the administration into action Time was when Payal (name changed to protect her identity), a standard VII student from Madhya Pradesh’s tribal dominated Betul district, had only school, friends and family on her mind. But her little world changed dramatically in March this year. The 15-year-old, a resident of Betul’s Majhinagar slum, was abducted in public by...

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