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Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006

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NCW seeks report from Delhi police on lawyers' murder

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Women has written to the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister seeking strengthening of security in the metropolitan cities and overhauling of the criminal justice system.

Commission chairperson Girija Vyas wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh following the murder of two advocates in the Capital on Saturday evening. The Commission has also sought a report within three days from the Delhi police on the murder of the mother-daughter duo.

Referring to the twin murder and killing and subsequent acquittal of the accused in the Jessica Lal case, Ms. Vyas said the two cases suggested the need for upgrading the security system and revamping of the judicial set-up in the country. The Commission has taken a serious note of the murder case and sought the report, she said.

More women in police

Ms. Vyas also suggested increasing the percentage of women in the country's police force from three per cent to 10 per cent and posting of policewomen in the Police Control Room vans.

She has urged Delhi Police Commissioner K.K. Paul to take effective steps to check crime against women in the Capital. Ms. Vyas said that the investigation of the case must be supervised by a senior officer to ensure that the guilty are punished.

The Commission has written to the Union Home Ministry in this regard and requested it to recruit more women for the force so that all police stations in the big cities have at least one lady officer.

Seventy-year-old Swarna Mahajan and her 45-year-old daughter Anuratha were found murdered in their Siddharth Enclave flat here on Sunday morning. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the attackers had gained `friendly entry' into the apartment.

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