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RR police rescue 11 girls
As many as 11 girls were rescued by the Ranga Reddy police in a span of 60 days from various places across the district. A joint operation by the RR district police and Child Line officials succeeded in rescuing the minor girls from illegal marriages.
Cops act on pleas made to ‘Dial 100’ and ‘1098’
Hyderabad: As many as 11 girls were rescued by the Ranga Reddy police in a span of 60 days from various places across the district. A joint operation by the RR district police and Child Line officials succeeded in rescuing the minor girls from illegal marriages.
The police rescued two girls each at Chevella and Basheerabad, one each at Shankarpally, Shabad, Kulkacherla, Tandur, Karankote, Nawabpet, and Yalal. Calls were received from the victims and their relatives on ‘Dial 100’ and ‘1098’, which helped the teams to rescue the girls, according to Ranga Reddy SP Rama Rajeshwari on Thursday.
The SP was addressing the gathering of girl students and women in general who have participated in the ‘Safety Rally’ and awareness workshop held by the police in Vikarabad, marking the conclusion of the 16-day campaign to end violence against women and also in connection with the Human Rights Day on December 10.
To learn about the problems faced by the girls, feedback was taken from thousands of girls who have participated in the campaign and awareness sessions.
“It is a simple experiment and the data collected is not exhaustive. We learnt that 90 per cent of the girls at some point of time were abused physically. They did not want to complain about it, fearing social stigma and retaliation by the abuser,” SP Rama Rajeshwari said, adding most of the minor girls rescued from illegal marriages were also victims of physical abuse and domestic violence by known persons at very younger age.
The SP said while analysing the factors provoking people to go for illegal marriages, it was identified that unable to offer dowry, broken family relations, customs at rural level and poverty were the main reasons.
Further, women working at small-scale industries in both organised and unorganised sectors were educated about the rights and an Internal Complaints Committee was set up at all the small-scale industries as per the ‘Sexual Harassment at Workplaces (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, she added.
