Delhi police team of women karate experts ready to protect the women

#delhi #karate #nirbhaya #plainclothes #uberrape Delhi has been branded as the rape capital of India and the Delhi police are getting ready to show that they would not tolerate any more bad behavior against its women. A 40-strong team fondly named ‘Charlie’s Angels’ has been trained to tackle the menace and they are fully trained in martial arts like karate as reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 17 February 2015.
As its leader Bharti Wadhwa says – the bad behavior can begin with a simple cat call followed by stalking and then rape. And, the mission of the team is to nip all such antics in the bud. These police women would be dressed in plain clothes instead of uniforms and would be deployed in the coming months at vulnerable locations like busy bus stations and metro stations, outside colleges and other such areas where women are thought vulnerable.
Delhi, the capital of India, is a sprawling city of some 16 million and it came under the spotlight just over two years ago when a 23-year-old woman was brutally gang raped in a moving bus. It was the Nirbhaya case and it led to an unrest of unimaginable magnitude and thousands took to the streets.
The attack and the subsequent protests all over the country led to a wave of policing and legal reforms.
In spite of promises the situation has not changed much and Delhi once again made the headlines when an Uber taxi driver was charged with raping a woman passenger.
As far as statistics go, nearly 2,069 rapes were registered with police in Delhi in 2014 against 1,571 the previous year – this is an increase of 31.6 percent.

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