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Police
need to be gender-sensitized to curb rape incidents: Tirath
Thursday November 25, 2010 05:26:58 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Police need to be gender-sensitized to curb incidents of rape,
Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said Thursday
reacting to the gangrape of a call centre employee from the
northeast, and added that she will write to the union home
minister as well as Delhi Police Commissioner on the matter.
"I am going to write to the home minister and the Delhi Police
Commissioner that gender-sensitization sessions should be
conducted for police personnel so that such cases can be addressed
promptly. Also, more PCR vans should patrol the capital's roads -
not just those pockets where northeastern students stay - so that
the city as a whole is more safe for women," Tirath told IANS.
NGOs, she said, will be involved in the sensitization drive.
The BPO employee, a northeastern woman aged 30, was abducted by
four-five men after she was dropped back home from work at night
in Dhaula Kuan in south Delhi. The men abducted her in a tempo
goods carrier and gangraped her. The men dumped her later at
Mangolpuri in northwest Delhi.
"For the BPOs, a set of guidelines for the safety of their women
employees is very important. While I am aware that they have
transport policies to pick and drop their employees, I will write
to the BPOs that stricter guidelines should be there for their
safety," Tirath said.
"So maybe there should be security personnel in the cabs that
drive back the women from work and also, the women should be
dropped at their doorstep and not at a distance as it happened in
this case," she added.
Reiterating similar incidents of harassment of northeastern women
in Delhi around the same time last year, Tirath said she had
written to the home ministry then too but nothing much had come
out of that.
"I had written to Home Minister P. Chidambaram Oct 28, 2009
regarding cases of sexual harassment of northeastern women in
Delhi and suggested a national consultation involving the home
ministry, the women and child development ministry and the police
to address the matter. I did get a response, but nothing much came
out of that," Tirath told IANS.
"There were some sensitization workshops for the police after
that, but soon the police got involved in the Commonwealth Games.
As it is they were overburdened. So the matter was forgotten. But
this time, I will speak to the commissioner to take necessary
steps immediately," she said.
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