Gender sensitization session should be conducted for police personnel said Tirath
New Delhi: Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said Police need to be gender-sensitized to curb incidents of rape on Thursday reacting to the gangrape of a call centre employee from the northeast.
He 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 session 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.
A northeastern woman aged 30 who is a BPO employee, 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 gang raped her. The men dumped her later at Mangolpuri in northwest Delhi.
Tirath said, “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.”
She added, “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.”
Tirath said she had written to the home ministry then too but nothing much had come out of that, when a similar incident of harassment occurred with northeastern women in Delhi around the same time last year.
