GURUGRAM: Police in the Millennium City have started an awareness campaign on POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act among school students.
These sessions are being carried out by women police officers in Gurugram, along with practising lawyers, to help children of Class VIII and IX understand sexual harassment, how to report such incidents, the help line number to be contacted and prevention.
These sessions will also be carried out at workplaces to sensitise women about sexual harassment at workplaces and their rights pertaining to the same.
The move by the district police comes at a time when a huge spike has been seen in cases of sexual harassment of minors.
Worryingly, these incidents are being reported many a time from educational institutions in the city.
A sweeper in the private school was recently arrested after he sexually assaulted girl students.
His crime would have gone unnoticed, had one of the victims not have mentioned her ordeal to her mother, which led to his eventual arrest.
"I would urge that generalisations must not be made in such cases, as is often done in most cases in the city. To say that Gurugram is unsafe because of such cases will be unfair to the city and its residents," said a senior police official who is in charge of handling cases of sexual crimes in the city.
The official also mentioned that all the arrested rapists in Gurugram have not been mentally unstable or juveniles.
"There are several categories of rapists. In our interrogation, one person raped an infant as he was unemployed and was advised that upon committing this act he may get a job.
"There was another case where a person was impotent and he committed this crime just to vent out his anger," added the senior official.