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Bhubaneswar, May 24: Several police personnel are expressing displeasure over cases related to women being handed over to them instead of being investigated by the Mahila police.
A policeman at Mancheswar police station said that they have to deal with most of the cases related to women despite the city having a Mahila police station.
“We are looking after the cases which ideally the Mahila police station should handle,” he said.
Complaints of crimes against women are being frequently lodged at the Sahid Nagar police station, claimed a policeman, adding that this is causing a lot of inconvenience.
Twin city police commissioner Rajendra Prasad Sharma, however, pointed that all cases related to women need not necessarily be handled by Mahila police. “If a woman wants to lodge a complaint and finds it convenient to visit the police station in the area where she resides, she can do so,” Sharma said.
The commissioner pointed out that the local police stations also have the option of transferring cases related to women to the Mahila police station.
Interestingly, the reply to an RTI enquiry filed by an Orissa POST correspondent has revealed that last year between January 1 and December 31, 398 cases of crimes against women were registered of which a whopping 257 cases are pending and in 159 such cases the accused have not yet been arrested.
