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Ironical

July 25, 2007, will be written in golden letters as a woman assumed the topmost office of the nation for the first time. In a contrasting development, Kiran Bedi, India’s first woman IPS officer of the 1972 batch, and a Ramon Magsaysay award winner, who is credited with introducing a series of reforms at Delhi’s high security Tihar Jail, has been sidelined for the post of Delhi Police Commissioner with Y.S. Dadwal, an officer of the 1974 batch, being appointed. By not appointing a deserving woman officer to the post, the government has gone against its commitment to women’s empowerment.
B.S. Bibhuti,
New Delhi

Even as Ms. Patil became the first woman President, the country’s first woman IPS officer went on long leave in protest against her junior being elevated to the post of Police Commissioner. A strange irony indeed!

Rocky Ukken,
Thiruvananthapuram

It is an irony that on the historic day when a woman became the supreme commander of the armed forces, the post of the Delhi Police Commissioner has been denied to a woman in spite of her credentials and seniority.

S.Y. Ramakrishnan,
Bangalore

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