Chitradurga: Karnataka State Women’s Commission chairperson R Prameela Naidu said, “It is possible to deter
harassment being meted out to women and children by enforcing stringent punishment on the culprits,” said Karnataka State Women’s Commission chairperson R Prameela Naidu. She was speaking after inaugurating a two-day workshop on the role of police and other officials in implementing legal proceedings to protect women’s and children’s rights at the ZP conference hall, here on Friday. She stressed the need for fear to be created in the minds of those committing atrocities against women and children.
‘Separate Covid care centres needed for women’
Following the incidents of
sexual harassment against women Covid patients in certain places, there is a need of separate Covid care wards for women, with necessary security arrangements being put in place, Prameela said, and added that she had already spoken with the health department on the issue.
349
child marriage cases recorded by NGO
Prameela Naidu expressed her concern over 349 child marriage cases that were recorded this year by Santwana, a Chitradurga-based NGO, apart from more than 10 rape cases. Chitradurga superintendent of police G Radhika said that there is a need to create more awareness about the banning of child marriage, and that those involved in it must need to face the consequences. She added that more child marriages are happening in Molakalmuru and Challakere, the most backward and drought-hit taluks of Chitradurga district.