Mumbai Police on Monday issued orders to beef up security and night patrolling outside railway stations, women’s public toilets and secluded areas. Police will also keep an eye on unclaimed vehicles and tempos parked at one location for a long time. This apart, there will be provision for QR codes at secluded places and a list of sexual offenders would also be at the disposal of local police. Police also said there would be preventive action against drug addicts.
The development comes days after a 34-year-old woman was allegedly raped and brutalised with a rod by a man inside a stationary tempo in suburban Sakinaka in the wee hours of last Friday. She died at a hospital during treatment in the early hours of Saturday. A 45-year-old suspect, arrested within a few hours of the incident, was later charged with murder.
According to an 11-point order from the police, all police stations and other units in Mumbai were told to follow instructions on women’s safety strictly. While all calls related to women’s safety will have to be acknowledged immediately by the control room, which will relay the information to units, personnel must ensure patrolling is carried out continuously in dark or dimly-lit areas.
They should also contact civic officials to get CCTVs installed in such places, the order said. Police have also been told to help women found alone on the roads during night hours, it said. Police stations having railway stations serving long-distance trains in their jurisdiction must deploy a patrolling van from 10pm to 7am, the order added.
A day after the gruesome incident in Sakinaka, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 35-year-old man in a railway premises in Ulhasnagar town in Thane district on Friday night, Railway Police Commissioner Qaisar Khalid said on Sunday, adding that the accused identified as Shrikant Gaikwad alias Dada was arrested on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the accused in the Sakinaka case has “confessed to his crime” and the weapon has also been recovered, Mumbai Police Commissioner Hemant Nagrale said on Monday.
According to Nagrale, the accused in his confession alleged that he knew the victim, and that she had “demanded” a few things from him. While discussing the matter, the woman and him broke into an argument and he committed the horrific crime.
(With PTI inputs)
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