Sir — If the recent data released by the Central Industrial Security Force is to be believed, it is very disheartening to learn that a shocking 92 per cent of Metro pick-pockets are women. However, with reports of thefts, robberies and other criminal cases involving women pouring in from different parts of the country, it would be wrong to say that this development is confined to the metro-cities.
Not that there haven’t been instances in history of women known to exhibit a criminal bent of mind and surprising the world with their audacious acts. But it is the alacrity with which the modern-day crimes involving women felons are being committed that brackets the fair skin much in the mould of their male counterparts. While on the one hand we have crimes against women on the rise in the country, on the other hand there is every reason to be alarmed at the recent trend where more and more women are taking to a life of crime with equal ease.