Speak up | Steps towards women safety show positive results: Delhi Police

Post Decmber 16 gangrape, women security in Delhi has always been under scanner. If Delhi Police’s statistics are to be believed, it shows that there are been decline in rape cases up to June 15, this year.

The data up to June 15 this year, suggests that 930 cases of rape were registered while molestation cases went up to 1,537. However, if compared, the numbers are lesser than recorded last year within the same period.

Last year, till June 15, 1,018 cases of rape were recorded with 2,020 cases of molestations. Delhi Police claims to have forced a decline in cases of crime against women be it rape, molestation, dowry deaths or cruelty by husband and in-laws. However, the cases of kidnapping have seen a sharp rise from 1,609 reported last year to 1,690 this year.

The trend also shows decline in cases of abduction of women which dipped from 251 in 2016 to 141 this year. Cases of dowry deaths also declined from 76 to 62 this year, the data reads.

Senior police officers claim that the dip in crime against women has been achieved through special drives and focus on targeting the miscreants who indulge in such crimes. “A woman friendly …read more