
Priority to protection of women, children: SPC
The Hindu
Police has to be citizen centric, says Anil Kant
State Police Chief Anil Kant on Friday flagged the protection of women and children as the law enforcement’s priority. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had launched a 24-hour police helpline (94979 96992) for women to report instances of dowry harassment, domestic violence, marital discord, violence against children and other gender crime, he said. The police had received hundreds of calls on the number. Victim protection was a significant component of law enforcement’s outreach. The police would swiftly respond to distress calls from women. Women officers would have a more substantial role in handling such cases. The police would rope in the neighbourhood watch to settle marital discords at the household level.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











