Separate courts should be set up for women: Krishna Tirath
Union minister for women and child development also stressed on the need for gender sensitisation programmes in each police stations, saying there is a need to sensitise the police regarding women issues.
Seeking to take the gender equality battle forward, a union minister today demanded separate courts for women to get them timely justice, wondering at the same time on absence of any female judge in the apex court."There is not a single female judge in the Supreme Court. Why don't we raise it...then how the women will get justice... there should be a separate court for women so that they get justice in time," Krishna Tirath, Union minister for women and child development, said while addressing a convention organised by the AICC legal and human rights department here.The minister also stressed on the need for gender sensitisation programmes in each police stations, saying there is a need to sensitise the police regarding women issues.
Making a strong pitch for creating public awareness regarding the women issues, the minister said the investigations into the Priyadarshini Mattoo case and Ruchika case owes a lot to the alertness of the society.Tirath also said the Self Help Group (SHGs) of women and Anganvadi workers can be made Ahimsa (non-violence) messengers to create awareness against gender violence. She said this has been done in Rajasthan and there is a need to create such Ahimsa Messengers in every nook and corner of the country.