New Delhi:
Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar today said that he never felt that he should quit after the case of Amanat (NOT her real name), a 23-year-old medical student who was gang-raped and brutally beaten up inside a moving bus in Delhi on December 16. She died on December 29 in a hospital in Singapore.
Mr Kumar was addressing the media at the annual press conference of the Delhi Police.
Here are the highlights:
- Never felt I should quit.
- My job is to lead the force.
- I have to deal with the circumstances, not run away.
- I am not a quitter.
- Till the government has faith in me I will continue.
- We are meeting within a month of the horrible incident.
- This is a watershed in the criminal justice system of India.
- This incident has the power to bring about major changes in the way rape cases are dealt by police, prosecution, courts, medical teams and society as a whole.
- I have a brief presentation that mainly focuses on crime against women.
- We have had a women's helpdesk and that is now operational 24x7.
- When a women complainant comes to a police station, jurisdiction will not be made an issue.
- We have introduced additional and integrated pickets - traffic police, PCR and local police.
- Fast track courts have been instituted to take up harassment cases.
- Thana-level committees will be re-constituted to include women NGOs , principals etc.
- There will be zero tolerance for eve teasing.
- Local police and PCR vans to be deployed outside girls' schools and colleges.
- All DTC buses must have GPS.
- We will enforce shutting pubs and discos at 1 pm strictly.
- DCPs will go out for patrolling till midnight.
- No debate that reforming youth prone to crime is the job of social welfare department and women and child ministry.