Around 371 alleged eve teasers and stalkers were arrrested in just 20 days under an iniative launched by the Delhi police.
Once again the incidence showed the extent of harassment that woman has to face in the streets of national capital.
Areas around shopping malls, university campus and the ones with large migrant population have turned out to be the vulnerable zones with the most number of offenders held from such places, said a senior police official.
The south Delhi which is known for its posh localities is at the top position in the list of detention and with 831 persons detained between august 3 and 23 for harassing women on streets, as per Delhi police records.
Strict vigil near Delhi University’s South Campus, Dhaula Kuan and Vasant Vihar – major points where large number of students enrolled in the South Campus colleges board and de-board buses, and areas like Mehrauli and Malviya Nagar, which have huge migrant population and some of the biggest shopping malls, have led to high number of detention, said R S Krishna, Joint Commissioner of Police (Southeast Range)
The shistachar iniative was launched on August 3. The main focus of this iniative is to “detain and discipline”, said SK Gautam, joint commissioner of police..
