For a safer Delhi

Govt launches consultation process, interacts with students for solutions

October 27, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:40 am IST - New Delhi:

The Delhi government on Monday kicked off a two week-long consultation process focussed on making the Capital safer for women and children through an interactive session presided over by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia at an all girls’ school here.

Mr. Sisodia, who is at the helm of a Group of Ministers constituted specifically to examine the possibility of adding more teeth to the Capital’s anti-rape laws and of trying the perpetrators of heinous crimes like rape and murder as adults if they were above the age of 15, will take part in similar interactions with other stakeholders before submitting a report on the same in mid-November.

The Deputy Chief Minister interacted with the students of the Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Pandara Park on Monday to find possible solutions related to problems of children and women’s safety

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