The State Women’s Commission will urge the State government to turn their focus on the need to open women police stations that were already sanctioned in different districts of the State including Kannur, its member Noorbina Rasheed has said.
The government should take urgent steps towards this, Ms. Rasheed told reporters after the commission’s sitting held at the Collectorate Conference Hall here on Wednesday.
She also said police teams being sent to arrest the accused from households should have at least a woman constable in the team.
Of the 54 complaints taken up at the sitting, 26 were settled, while 11 posted for police inquiry, she said. The rest have been posted for next sitting. Majority of the cases concerned were disputes over properties. In one complaint submitted before the commission, an elderly woman said the eight-acre land owned by her father was still being held by her elder brother without partitioning it as per Sharia law.
Though it was a civil dispute, the woman approached the commission because of the delay in settling the litigation in the court, Ms. Rasheed said.
In another case, an elderly couple wanted their complaint about harassment by their son settled by agreeing to give everything they possessed in their house to the son. They wanted no harm to their son and wanted to live rest of their lives in peace, she said. In cases of sexual harassment, the commission wanted speedy investigation and disposal, the member said.
She also exuded the hope that the State government would introduce an enactment to check marriage extravaganza in the State. Women are the victims of such practices, she said.
