Amid an outrage over rising rape cases in the country, there are widespread messages being circulated supposedly for women safety. But ladies, not all of them are true.
Women police constables would also be deputed in each such bus so as to keep a vigil on anti-social elements. Initially, educational institutions of higher education would be included for to and fro facility for the students.
In the statement, the ministry said, "Women help desks would focus on making the police stations more women friendly and approachable, as they would be the first and single point of contact for any woman walking into a police station."
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India is ranked the most dangerous country for women, according to a survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Even though the survey was published in 2018, not much has changed.
India is outraged as shocking details of a brutal gangrape and murder of Hyderabad veterinary doctor emerges. India's defence minister Rajnath Singh today asserted that the government was ready to make strictest laws to stop such crimes in future.
Often around us, we see girls say 'it is not safe to go out in the night' or 'let's get back inside at a decent time'. The question is who decides decent? Who decides when a girl should go out and when she should come back inside the house? Is it fair to let this 'self-retrospection' of safe surroundings become the new norm wherein this becomes something which every girl in this country learns to live with?
The steps have been initiated in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a woman veterinary doctor in the city on November 28. The burnt body of the veterinary doctor was found at Shadnagar outskirts in Telangana's Ranga Reddy district.
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