Safety of girls

Mumbai is the largest city in India and is also the center of the biggest mafias. But today it is the only city where girls can walk safely alone at midnight. It is the culture of Mumbai city. If girls are pestered, the mobs are the first to react in Mumbai. The police come later and everyone knows this well. So, no one dares to misbehave with girls on the streets. Gradually, it became the city's culture and identity.

Meantime, the situation in Delhi, which is home to ministers, police and all major security agencies, is not that. Delhi is not safe for girls. There are many infamous incidents in Delhi where girls are brutally attacked. Apart from the protection of the police, the vigilance and intervention of the fellow pedestrians is the main factor that ensures the protection of the girls. Such a response will not harm the survival of society. However, in Kerala, even if girls are attacked in broad daylight, no one tries to intervene.

When a graduate student and her friend were attacked by three youths in Kottayam city, no one even tried to stop them. Does this send a message that the public has become weak? Girls and women are continuously attacked even in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city. The accused are caught only because CCTVs are installed in private firms.

It is a kind of mental disorder if a person feels like assaulting a girl walking alone. If they fear that they will be treated by the mob like in Mumbai, no assailant will ever do this. Training female students in martial arts as part of the curriculum will help them in self-defense. The courts should be able to ensure maximum punishment without delay in cases of assault on women. The government has the responsibility to provide basic security to women. Such goondaism against women can be stopped only if society, government and the legal systems join hands. The students of CMS College had cut their hair in protest against the attack at a student in Kottayam. The government and society should not allow such incidents to reiterate in Kerala.