The heat and dust generated by the gruesome incident of rape
of Delhi girl
will settle down slowly and the authorities will go back on their assurances
knowing well that public memory is short. Ire of the people may topple the
hopes of the present regimes in Delhi and Centre to return to power but the
possibility of the alternate Government also behaving similarly persists as the
attitudes of all politicians are same and their stakes are high for whom rape
and crimes against women are silly things and most like to indulge in it. One
rape accused, son of a DGP is nowhere to be seen for the last 7 years. Not one but 7 rapists sentenced to death were
pardoned and saved from gallows by our former Prez Smt. Patil, obviously on the advice of Union
Home Ministry, which is ironically in
charge of the police and law and order of Delhi.
Stringent laws and extreme punishment are of course needed
but it alone will not deter the criminals. When the whole Delhi was on the
streets day and night protesting the rape another rape took place in another
Delhi transport bus. Prevention is better than cure. So strict vigil and prompt
preventive action is needed. Every police station should have a team comprising
5 specially trained police personnel, 2 of them women, under a sub-inspector
exclusively to deal with crimes against women. Most of the victims dare not
inform police for the mere fear of the harassment at the police station and the
adverse publicity. The special team should take care of all these things.
At district level the team headed by a Superintendent should
help and supervise the investigation and the overall supervision and filing of
FIR, follow-up and other legal matters shall be done by an ADGP with independent
charge reporting to a committee comprising of Home minister, Chief Minister and
leader of opposition, DGP, Home Secretary etc. and report and the decision
taken at the Committee should be recorded with opinion of each. This will
prevent accused escaping with political influence.
Regular patrol especially at nights to be done at busy places, bus stations,
railway stations, malls, markets to make police presence felt, to create a feeling of security among the
women and fear among the prospective rapists.
All should be accountable to their acts of omission and should
be held responsible and should be punished under the new law (new Law should
contain it).
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