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“The women
of India are paying the cost of official negligence, ignorance or
callousness with their lives. This has to be unacceptable any further. Women
must demand security as their primary-fundamental-human right.”
– Kiran Bedi Considered by many the Voice of the People, the
former super cop Kiran Bedi – India’s first woman police officer – now wears
another garb – that of social activism. Kiran has been the collective voice
of the nation against corruption and violence against women. SALT met her
the day after the heinous crime took place in Delhi. The city was still
stunned and under shock by the brutality of the six savages. Was the
horrific gang-rape of the young medical student a preventable crime? Those of us who gave 'all of ourselves' to police
service will say, “Yes it was preventable. If basic-daily home work is done.
Be it a cosmopolitan city or anywhere”. Women in particular are suffering huge albeit
avoidable harassment and insecurities. Their mobility, creativity, and
growth are being restricted due to essential daily homework not being done
by public officials, whose duty it is to do so! What is worse is the fact
that these public officials go unpunished, because their supervisors either
do not know the nuts and bolts of basic policing or they have misplaced
priorities. We the women of India and our families are paying
the cost of official negligence, ignorance or callousness with our lives.
This has to be unacceptable any further. Women must demand security as their
primary-fundamental-human right. Therefore citizens of this country must know what it
is that our public officials must immediately put in place to prevent any
re-occurrence of such gruesome crime against women. Many of us cops believe
this kind of heinous crime and many others are preventable!
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