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Give bravery awards to molested cops: NCW
The women constables who were molested and attacked during the August 11 violence at the city’s Azad Maidan here should be given bravery awards and financial compensation, a fact-finding committee of the National Commission for Women (NCW) recommended to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan here on Tuesday.
Mr. Chavan assured the committee members that the State government was taking strong measures to boost the morale of the police force and that the culprits would be given the strictest possible punishment for their crime. “The State government has taken serious note of the attack on the police personnel who were on bandobast duty that day,” Mr. Chavan reportedly told the NCW team.
“We met the victim police constables and had a meeting with the Chief Minister, Mumbai Police Commissioner, Joint Commissioner of Police [Crime] and senior police officers. We had a detailed discussion with them. We have recommended that since these women constables have shown bravery by not leaving the place and staying around there, doing their duty, they should be given bravery awards,” advocate Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, member of the NCW, told The Hindu. The five-member committee, headed by NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma, travelled from Delhi on Tuesday to meet the victims. The commission had taken suo motu note of the incident. During its visit, it went through the CCTV footage of the incident. It met 10 women constables for around 40 minutes for a detailed discussion.
The committee recommended that the case be speeded up and the strictest punishment meted out to the perpetrators of the violence. “The Chief Minister gave a very good response to our suggestions. We also recommended the appointment of a special public prosecutor for the case,” Ms. Samant Prabhavalkar said.
The preliminary recommendations given to the Chief Minister include: “Body shield lightweight/body-protecting jackets should be introduced during the field operations/bandobast duties. Infrastructure for women police personnel such as women’s hostel, mess, baby crèches, day care centres, washrooms, restrooms during training as well as at appointment places are to be created at the earliest.” The recommendations also include limiting the working hours of women police personnel to eight hours.
The committee included retired IPS officer and former Maharashtra Director General of Police, T.K. Choudhary, Secretary of Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, A.N. Tripathi and Ujwala Kadrekar, an official of CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes) NGO.
The women constables who were molested and attacked during the August 11 violence at the city’s Azad Maidan here should be given bravery awards and financial compensation, a fact-finding committee of the National Commission for Women (NCW) recommended to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan here on Tuesday.
Mr. Chavan assured the committee members that the State government was taking strong measures to boost the morale of the police force and that the culprits would be given the strictest possible punishment for their crime. “The State government has taken serious note of the attack on the police personnel who were on bandobast duty that day,” Mr. Chavan reportedly told the NCW team.
“We met the victim police constables and had a meeting with the Chief Minister, Mumbai Police Commissioner, Joint Commissioner of Police [Crime] and senior police officers. We had a detailed discussion with them. We have recommended that since these women constables have shown bravery by not leaving the place and staying around there, doing their duty, they should be given bravery awards,” advocate Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, member of the NCW, told The Hindu. The five-member committee, headed by NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma, travelled from Delhi on Tuesday to meet the victims. The commission had taken suo motu note of the incident. During its visit, it went through the CCTV footage of the incident. It met 10 women constables for around 40 minutes for a detailed discussion.
The committee recommended that the case be speeded up and the strictest punishment meted out to the perpetrators of the violence. “The Chief Minister gave a very good response to our suggestions. We also recommended the appointment of a special public prosecutor for the case,” Ms. Samant Prabhavalkar said.
The preliminary recommendations given to the Chief Minister include: “Body shield lightweight/body-protecting jackets should be introduced during the field operations/bandobast duties. Infrastructure for women police personnel such as women’s hostel, mess, baby crèches, day care centres, washrooms, restrooms during training as well as at appointment places are to be created at the earliest.” The recommendations also include limiting the working hours of women police personnel to eight hours.
The committee included retired IPS officer and former Maharashtra Director General of Police, T.K. Choudhary, Secretary of Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, A.N. Tripathi and Ujwala Kadrekar, an official of CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes) NGO.
