Gurugram was always touted as a safe city for women. But with the increasing cases of eve-teasing and molestation, it may soon lose this tag. Interestingly the Haryana Police had formed “Durga Squads” in September of this year to tackle such kind of incidents. In August, the Gurugram Police received 746 calls on women helpline number 1091 in which 313 eve-teasing cases were registered so far and it is possible that hundreds of cases were not reported to the police. On an average Gurugram police receives 10 complaints pertaining to eve-teasing.
Meanwhile, in the starting of 2017, as per the data in the month of January, the cops had received 761 calls of eve-teasing and around 449 complaints registered. This year till August around 3072 eve-teasing complaints had been registered with the Gurugram police.
Gurugram police are planning to soon launch their special squad which will deal with such offenders. According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (headquarters), Deepak Gahlawat the Gurugram police and are planning to launch special squad soon, the police personnel will get a hundred bikes with collaboration with two-wheeler company name of the company yet to be confirmed to curb such crimes.
“The name of the special squad which will only deal with eve-teasing and molestation crimes against women is yet to be confirmed. The launching of the project is in the final stage. The squad personnel will get special training to decrease the crime figure,” the DCP, said.
Meanwhile, the city police have also decided to conduct monthly meetings with female commuters and social workers to know the problems faced by them in public places such as, Markets, Metro Stations, Bus Stands, Railway stations and other busy locations and also to report any harassment. The meetings are supposed to be conducted by the senior police officials.As per the police sources, the Gurugram police has received around 600 to 800 calls related to the molestation, eve-teasing, vulgar comments and objectional messages per month.