DCW issues notice to Union Home Secretary

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has issued a ‘notice’ to the Union Home Secretary seeking reasons for the postponement of the Special 

Task Force’s (STF) meeting on women’s safety along with the details of the deliberations convened at the Home Ministry level to tackle child rape in the city.

Maliwal also sought information on the progress of the Delhi Police’s initiative to understand the psychology and motivations of a rape accused (created in light of the Usha Mehra Commission report) along with a report of the findings so far and the current status of the revised Delhi Victim Compensation Scheme 2015 proposed by the city government.

“As you are aware, Delhi is recording an increasing number of rape cases, especially of children. In the past one and a half months, there have been over 130 cases of rape. Out of this, over 50 are of children, two of whom were barely 1 year old,” Maliwal said in the notice.  

“In light of the mounting and unabated incidence of rapes of women and children in Delhi, the Delhi Commission for Women takes strong note of a communication from the Home Ministry regarding the postponement of the 12th meeting of the Special Task Force (STF) on Women’s Safety.

“The 12th STF meeting has been postponed several times and the previous meeting was held more than four months ago on the 2nd of December 2015,” she said.