Another senior police officer said the number of travellers in passenger trains has come down drastically.
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KOCHI: With many opting to work from home, or preferring to use their own travel options, travelling alone in passenger trains is a risky affair for women these days. One major factor is the lack of policing in such trains.
The Punalur passenger train, in which a woman was robbed and attacked, did not have police personnel on duty. A senior RPF officer said security personnel are deployed only in night trains, i.e. between 6pm and 6am. “We have been deploying security personnel on long-distance trains. As this is train runs in the day, there was no security personnel on duty,” the officer said.
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What Sarah Everard’s Murder Illuminates And Might Obscure
We must consider why this one case has attracted so much attention, to the exclusion of many others.
March 17, 2021
A vigil for Sarah Everard in LondonVictoria Jones / PA Images / Getty
Updated at 9:50 a.m. on March 17, 2021.
On the evening of March 3, Sarah Everard did everything right: She went home at a reasonable hour and traveled the long way, along well-lit London streets. As she walked, she checked in with her boyfriend on the phone. Then the call abruptly cut out.
Everard never made it home that night. Her remains were recently discovered in the Kent woodlands, some 50 miles from where she was last seen alive. A police officer, Wayne Couzens, has been charged with the 33-year-old’s kidnapping and murder (and also faces separate allegations of indecent exposure three days prior). The two do not seem to have had any previous contact.
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Plans to send plainclothes police into British nightclubs and improve public lighting to increase women’s safety in the wake of a high-profile murder case were criticized as “laughable” by policing experts and rights campaigners on Tuesday.
The government announced the measures on Monday as the death of Sarah Everard, 33, and police’s handling of a memorial vigil, where they tussled with mourners, fuelled a national debate over women’s safety and criticism of police.
Femina Spark Empowers Women in Uttar Pradesh With Workshops
by Kalwyna Rathod | March 6, 2021, 18:19 IST
These past 12 months have been a witness to countless awe-inspiring stories of women who have come out of the shadows, and made a mark for themselves while contributing to their community. Committed to celebrating journeys of this incredible fighting spirit of womanhood,
Femina, India’s leading women’s magazine, begins a new chapter in its 61-year-old history of empowering women by introducing a novel initiative,
Femina Spark. With the mission to
‘Light Up Her Spirit’,
Femina, in the first edition of its initiative, has joined hands with the