In a few days, it is going to be two years since a paramedical student was brutally gang-raped in a moving bus in the middle of the city, outraging a whole nation to come out in droves to demand for justice and better security system. The killers might be behind bars today, but what happened to the policy decisions that were promised to bring in a greater sense of security. A woman travelling in a cab is as unsafe as one travelling in a bus; nothing much has changed for the Delhi woman.
One of the major recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee, constituted after the incident, was that there should be rape crisis centres to provide assaulted women with instantaneous help by providing them with medical, legal, financial, emotional hep and shelter. While the Minister of Women and Child Development came up with the necessary arrangements for these one-stop crisis centres, the PMO shot it down last week calling them unnecessary.
The 1,000 crore Nirbhaya Fund remains untouched, and despite no developments last year, the Finance Ministry allocated another 1,000 crore this year. In February, the Home Minister instructed his ministry to implement a project under the fund from which in 114 cities women will be able to alert the police with the press of a single button on their mobiles, activating GPS-tracking so that the police can dispatch a PCR van track them. It still lies on paper.
Another recommendation was that women should be able to file FIRs online, and gender sensitisation camps should be held within the police force so that they do not turn away rape survivors. But forget security, many a times cops themselves sexually assault women. In September, a SHO molested a gang rape survivor by mixing sedatives in her drink. He was a member of the Rashtrapati Bhawan security.
An FIR was registered only after the survivor approached the Delhi Police commissioner and gave her written complaint to him. An RTI filed by Rajhans Bansal, around 70 cops wee found with rape charges against them in the last decade. And 30 had molestation cases registered against them.
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