The Delhi Police on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that during a mapping of the Capital to find out which areas were more prone to crime against women, it was found that certain pockets in the city, like Dabri in West Delhi and Malviya Nagar in South Delhi, reported more incidents of crime in 2013.
The police submitted the survey report to a Division Bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul in a sealed cover.
The Court had asked them to conduct a survey to identify areas which report more cases of crime against women so that a targeted approach could be taken to control it.
The Bench had ordered the survey on a public interest litigation saying that instances of eve-teasing had increased manifold in 2013.
After going through the report, the Bench asked the police to file a status report by May 21 stating what steps it had taken to control crime in these identified areas after the mapping.
The Bench observed that the areas which had seen fast urbanisation reported more cases of crime against women – eve-teasing, molestation and rape.
The Court also said that these areas required increased policing, gender sensitisation and public awareness campaigns to bring the crime rate down. The Court also pulled up the Delhi Government for the delay in disbursal of monetary compensation to rape victims. The Court expressed its displeasure over the delay when amicus curae in a suo motu petition in the Nirbhaya gang rape case, Meira Bhatia, drew its attention to it.
The Court asked the Government to make the payment to the victims within two months.
Ms. Bhatia also drew the attention of the Bench to the closure of as many as seven forensic labs running in different hospitals due to lack of forensic scientists. The Bench asked the Government to file a reply to it.
