The National Commission for Women (NCW) stated that there was a 46 per cent enhance in complaints of crimes in opposition to ladies within the first eight months of 2021 in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, and greater than half of those had been from Uttar Pradesh.
NCW chief Rekha Sharma stated that there was a rise in complaints because the fee has been conducting consciousness applications often which has made the general public extra aware of its work now.
The NCW obtained a complete of 19,953 complaints of crimes in opposition to ladies from January to August this 12 months, up from 13,618 within the corresponding interval of 2020.
In July, the NCW obtained 3,248 complaints, the best in a month since June 2015.
The NCW stated that out of 19,953 complaints, the best variety of complaints had been registered at 7,036 below Right to Live with Dignity, adopted by 4,289 complaints of home violence and a pair of,923 complaints of harassment of married ladies or dowry harassment.
The Right to Live with Dignity clause takes under consideration the emotional abuse of girls.
1,116 complaints have been obtained concerning the offense of outraging the modesty of girls, adopted by 1,022 complaints of rape and try to rape and 585 complaints of cyber crimes.
The fee stated that among the many states and union territories, the utmost variety of complaints have been obtained from Uttar Pradesh (10,084), Delhi (2,147), Haryana (995) and Maharashtra (974).
NCW chief Sharma stated that the rise within the variety of complaints is because of the rising consciousness amongst ladies to report crimes.
“Also, the fee has all the time made it a degree to launch new initiatives to assist ladies. Keeping this in thoughts, we now have additionally began a helpline quantity around the clock to supply help providers to the needy ladies, the place they’ll additionally lodge complaints.
Akanksha Srivastava, Founder, Akanksha Foundation, which works for training and empowerment of individuals by imparting data on cyber safety, stated that the rise in complaints is because of larger consciousness amongst ladies to assist.
“When complaints enhance it’s a good factor as a result of it means extra ladies have the braveness to talk up and now there are platforms in place and so they know the place to report. People are arriving now. Earlier ladies weren’t coming ahead to register their complaints
Complaining… they did not know what they had been going by way of was harassment, however now they do, and they’re coming ahead to report which is an effective factor,” she stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
