Force to help police deal with women cases

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, November 17

The Delhi Government has decided to constitute a “Woman Protection Force (WPF)” to assist the police in woman-related cases and check illegal sale of liquor and other social ills in the national Capital.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Chairperson of the Delhi Woman Commission, Swati Maliwal at a press conference jointly said that keeping in view the rise in crime against woman, including rape of minor girls, the government has decided to constitute the WPF.

Sisodia said that a cabinet note was being prepared in this connection. Once it is ready, it will be handed over to the DCW to constitute the WPF. The DCW will chalk out this plan – how many people should be there, how it should act keeping in coordination with the police. Men will also be included in the force. The government would provide civil defence volunteers to the WPF.

To begin with the DCW will launch this at three places as a pilot project. However, he refused to name the places where it would be launched.

Addressing the press conference, Maliwal said that she had launched a “Satyagraha” against the crime against woman. Today was the eleventh day. She along with her team members had raided a number of places where illegal liquor was being sold in connivance with the local police. Now a movement will be launched to eradicate this menace.

She said at Jahangirpuri and Holambi Kala village, women were found selling liquor. When she interacted with them, the women said that they pay bribe to the police.

Maliwal said that the information of selling liquor illegally had been passed on to the Excise Department. She and the Deputy CM today had a meeting with senior officers of the department.

This year, the DCW received as many as 12,000 complaints of crime against women. Most of such reports had came from Anand Vihar bus depot, railway station and public toilets.