eb 21: When Nirbhaya was gang raped and murdered, the Supreme Court said Indian capital was not a safe place for women. Now after Nikhila’s kidnap attempt in the heart of Hyderabad, same doubts are being expressed about the safety of women in the AP capital.
Nikhil More the software professional depended on her own wisdom and courage to escape an apparent rape attempt. No police came to her rescue, though she screamed in terror on public roads. This shows the shallowness of our security system and the dependability of our cops. The traffic policemen who leave the traffic haywire and rush to collect ‘Mamools’ when they find a loaded lorry, are not worried even if women were kidnapped or raped on public roads.
Though police claim that they nabbed the criminals within 24 hours of the crime and boast of their greatness, allowing this offence to happen is itself a clear evidence of the shallowness of the security system. In Nikhil’s case a person who sat by the side of the auto driver turned out to be his accomplice in the crime. It is a common sight in Hyderabad for auto drivers to take their friends in the front seat. To take a second person in the driver’s seat is an offence. Still, police take their regular tips and won’t bother about such violations. It is mostly this second person that turns an accomplice in crimes committed by auto drivers. If Nikhil More had not jumped down from the auto, what would have happened later would be unimaginable. What is the use if the police catch the criminals after a woman was raped or killed?
Nikhil More of Vengurla village in Sindhurga district of Maharashtra is a design engineer working in a software company in Amirpet. She is living with a friend in Narayanaguda in a rented house.
Nikhil went to a beauty parlour in Madhapur after her duty on Tuesday evening. There she boarded a sharing auto to Mytrivanam in Amirpet. There was another person sitting by the driver’s side. All other passengers who boarded the auto got down before the auto reached Mytrivanam, excepting the auto driver’s accomplice sitting by his side.
When Nikhil was alone in the auto, the auto driver diverted the vehicle from the main road. When Nikhil grew suspicious as the driver has been going round for an hour, she called a friend on her mobile and told him what was happening. Auto driver snatched the phone from her, told her friend that they would be coming to Punjagutta in 15 minutes and kept her cell phone with him. Nikhil was shocked when auto driver’s friend caught her tightly, preventing her attempts to jump down. When she screamed, he tightly closed her mouth with his hands. Nikhil some how managed to bring out the pepper spray she was carrying in her bag, escaped by spraying it on the person holding her and jumped down from the auto. She sustained a head injury as she jumped down from a moving vehicle. Navin a software engineer coming that way on his two wheeler behind the auto, rushed her in 108 ambulance to hospital. She is recovering now.
Nowhere in this incident, there was police intervention. Police who boast of catching the criminals within 24 hours, should explain why they could not make Hyderabad a safe place for women.
Police set up CC cameras at important junctions. But they watch these cameras after a crime was committed and catch the criminals as they did in this case. But if the CC cameras were watched by a policeman all the time live, he would see a crime as it happens and would be able to prevent it, instead of allowing it to happen and then nab the criminal. It is better if policemen realize that they should first prevent a crime from happening and not boast about their ability in nabbing the criminals fast, after allowing a crime to happen.
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