In 11 years, nothing changed on women’s safety: Father of December 16 gangrape victim

“Many things have changed since 2014…welfare has improved. Many downtrodden have benefitted. We can also say that a social and religious revolution has taken place in a way…What hasn’t changed post 2012, however, is women’s safety. Women are still extremely unsafe in our country,” said the woman’s father.

According to him, the two main issues were of the police not filing FIRs or presenting evidence correctly and “rich criminals” generally hiring private lawyers to which the state’s lawyers were sometimes of “no match.”

“If something happens to someone’s daughter or wife in this country, they really have no place to go for help,” he said. The comments come in the wake of data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) earlier this month revealing a surge in crime against women, marking Delhi amongst the most unsafe cities for them.

According to data, over 14,158 crimes against women were reported in 2022, recording an increase from 13,982 reported in 2021. In 2020, the figure was pegged at 9,782, the highest among other metropolitan cities that year. Further breakup of the 141,58 crimes against women showed that 3,909 cases of kidnapping/abduction and 1,204 incidents of rape had been reported in
2022.