Under fire from various quarters over the rise in heinous crimes against women in Haryana, Chief Minister Manohar lal has directed the state police to conduct a special campaign with a view to crackdown on criminals indulging in crime against women.
The directions were issued at a meeting held by the Chief Minister on Thursday with senior home and police department officials over women safety, where he also discussed progress made in the Uklana rape and murder case.
A six-year-old girl was murdered allegedly after being raped in Hisar’s Uklana last week. The police is yet to nab the culprits in the case.
The Chief Minister showed his concern on the occurrence of such incident and directed the Police Department to take all possible steps to prevent occurrence of such incidents in the future.
He said that a special campaign should be launched with a view to crackdown on criminals indulging in crime against women.
Following this, the state police has launched a month long campaign from December 14 onwards to prevent and detect crime against women, to detect narcotics smuggling and to launch a crackdown on all most wanted criminals.
All the CPs, Range IGPs and district SSP have been directed to follow women safety action plan on a day to day basis in the state.
They have been told to ensure that all the educational institutions are visited by senior police officers over a time period of three months and assistance of NGOs may be taken to organize special sensitization programs for ensuring safety of women in districts.
Apart from educational institutions, factories and business establishments, where a large number of women employees are working should also be visited. Assistance of civil officers may also be sought through DCs to cover all the educational institutions and business establishments.
The senior police officers including IGs, CPs, DCPs, SPs, DSPs are also directed to visit educational institutions and interact with the students in order to sensitize them about the safety of girl students
The police has also decided to encourage the girls to use women’s helpline (1091) and report the incidents of eve-teasing and other harassment without fear.
Under the women safety action plan, boys would be made aware of various provisions of crime against women under various Acts. They would also be administered an oath to ensure safety of girl students.
In the villages, the village Panchayats will be roped in to seek their help to organize special sensitization programs with youth of the village by the SHOs and incharges of PPs and also for contacting the parents of the eve-teasers.
The Chief Minister was apprized that a total of 118 eve-teasing prone points have been identified in the state by the police and adequate police duties will be deployed at these points.
Decoys would be used on sensitive routes where frequent incidents of eve-teasing are reported. All such sensitive schools and colleges will be also visited by senior police officers along with PRI members and NGOs for administering oath for safety of girl students.
The Chief Minister said that prompt action and expeditious investigation has to be ensured whenever any such crime is reported to the Police. Besides, gazetted officers shall personally supervise the investigation in such crime cases.
A monthly compliance report from all the units has to be submitted the police headquarters by fifth of every month and it shall be monitored by OP Singh, IPS, ADGP/Human Rights & litigation, Haryana, he added.