The rape case of 27 year old woman in Delhi has put the city yet again in the news for wrong reasons. The Delhi police says abduction and kidnapping of women and girls are reported nearly twice as much in the Capital.
According to the Delhi Police, one woman is kidnapped or abducted on an average every two hours. At the same time, the police register a rape case every four hours. “This data primarily includes kidnapping of minor girls. Places like Outer, Northeast and East Delhi witness the most cases of kidnapping and abduction. Minor girls are abducted by human traffickers for flesh trade as well,” according to a deputy commissioner level officer.
Interestingly, the police claim that such high figures of crime against women are due to streamlining of the FIR registration process. “The high rate of crime against women in Delhi can be attributed to the fact that the registration of rape, molestation and other crimes against women has increased as an outcome of increased awareness of general public,” Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary had said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
The Delhi Police registered 1,686 rape cases in Delhi this year till November 15. The number of abduction cases stood at 3,589 in the same period.
According to the Delhi Police, 40 cases of crime against women are registered daily on an average. As many as 13,230 cases of crime against women have been registered so far this year in Delhi. The figure stood at 11,479 cases in the same period last year.
Besides the cases of kidnapping and abduction, molestation cases reported in Delhi are much higher than sexual assault cases. The Delhi Police has registered 3,832 cases of molestation so far this year in Delhi. More than 2,600 cases of domestic violence were registered and 141 dowry deaths reported in the same period as per the Delhi Police data.
The alarming rate of crimes against woman has triggered unprecedented global outrage. Building on the momentum of awareness-raising women around the world are working from the ground level to move beyond merely raising awareness. Grassroots women’s groups, feminist organizations, and local authorities in the should come together to sign tangible, locally-specific commitments for action for safer cities.
Momentum for change to end violence against women and girls is stronger and more widespread than ever before, according to the UN Women Executive Director and former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet. Violence against women in the private domain is widely recognized as a human rights violation. But sexual violence and harassment against women in public spaces remains largely unaddressed, with few laws or policies in place to address it. It is time for these issues to come to front and center as a priority on every policy agenda.
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