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Rape Row in India

New Delhi to have more policewomen

BBC Online
More women police will be recruited soon in the Indian capital, Delhi, after a national outcry over the gang rape of a young woman last month, officials said yesterday.
Five men have been charged with raping and murdering the 23-year-old who died of her injuries at the weekend.
The men will be tried in a fast-track court, where they could be handed the death penalty. A sixth suspect is likely to
be tried in a juvenile court.
Meanwhile, the home minister has called a meeting of officials from all states.
Sushil Kumar Shinde was scheduled to talks yesterday with state chief secretaries and police chiefs on how to stop crimes against women, officials said.
On Thursday, the five accused, who include the driver of the bus, were charged before a magistrate but the case will be transferred to a specially launched
fast-track court today.
The trial is expected to start at the weekend.
Case documents already run to more than 1,000 pages and include key testimony from the woman before she died.
Police say they have scheduled about 30 witnesses.
Meanwhile, the Bar Association said none of its members was willing to defend the suspects, so the court is expected to appoint defence lawyers itself.
Late on Thursday, Shinde announced that each of the 166 police stations in Delhi would have policewomen available at all times.
"I have signed the file for appointing two woman sub-inspectors and seven woman constables in every police station in Delhi," he told reporters.
Protests have been taking place every day since the attack, with demonstrators expressing anger at attitudes to women in India and calling for changes to the laws on violence against women.
They say women across India are frequently subjected to harassment and sexual assault, that reports of crimes against women are not taken seriously and that conviction rates are too low.
The medical student from north India was repeatedly raped and violated with an iron bar on a moving bus in the capital on December 16 as she returned from a cinema with her boyfriend.
The Press Trust of India quoted police sources as saying the driver of the bus had tried to run her over after throwing her out, but that she was saved by her friend.
Meanwhile, Delhi officials have responded to criticism that they are failing to protect women by announcing a series of measures intended to make the city safer.
These include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.
A telephone helpline has been launched for women in distress, connected to police stations across the city.
The government has also set up a committee under a retired Supreme Court judge to recommend changes to the anti-rape law.