Girls should not be given phones as it leads to rapes: UP Women's Commission member

Meena Kumari made the remarks during a public hearing of complaints related to women in Aligarh district.

A member of the Uttar Pradesh Women's Commission said that girls should not be given mobile phones as it leads to rapes. Meena Kumari made the remarks during a public hearing of complaints related to women in Aligarh district. "Girls should not be given mobile phones. Girls talk with boys on phones for hours and later run away with them. Their phones are not even checked and family members are unaware of these things," Meena Kumari said. The UP Women's Commission member said the society itself would have to be serious about the increasing crimes against women.