BHUBANESWAR: Protesting the growing atrocities against women in the State and police and State inaction, the members of the National Alliance for Women Odisha chapter (NAWO) staged dharna in front of the State Assembly here on Friday.
The members of the organisation
said that since the beginning of this year women atrocities have been on the
rise everyday. Newspapers are carrying stories of women /young girls being
raped, thrown down from river bridges, attacked, kidnapped, killed for dowry. And
in all this in all most none of the cases the culprits are being handled they
way they should be, they added.
NAWO convener Pramila Swain said
that in most cases police is not taking an FIR unless they are pressurized to
do so by the public. Even in the highly publicized Pipli gang rape case it was
seen how the victim was treated by the police and hospital authorities. Around 242
cases have been reported within last seven months. The most alarming factor is
the casual attitude of police and concerned government authorities towards
women’s atrocity cases, she added.
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