Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Delhi disgraceful for NE girls: Union minister

T
wo days after the gruesome murder of a Naga teenager in the national capital, a Union minister from the north-east has lashed out at the attitude of the general Delhiite towards women from the region.

Speaking to Headlines Today, Minister of State for Rural Development Agatha Sangma said incidents of women from the north east being molested in Delhi has been quite rampant. The situation in Delhi has been disgraceful, she said.

"We desperately need a more cooperative police and administration. What is also needed urgently is sensitising of the police so that people from the north east feel a part of the system," the minister said.

The police had discovered partially burnt body of Manipuri girl Ramchanphy Hongray from a south Delhi locality on Sunday.

Prior to that, a 21-year-old girl from Arunachal Pradesh, who studies in Jamia Millia Islamia University, was molested in the classroom of a government school in yet another locality of south Delhi. The girl had entered the school campus to complain against some boys who had allegedly teased her while she was passing by.

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