Stay residence to keep away from rape: Gujarat site visitors polices posters spark row; DCP says posters created with out their consent

Posters allegedly sponsored by the Ahmedabad site visitors police for a security marketing campaign have stirred up an argument, as a few of them urged ladies to remain residence to keep away from getting raped.

The posters, which have been pasted in a couple of localities within the metropolis, have invited criticism from the opposition, which raised questions on ladies’s security in Gujarat.

Posters with statements, “do not attend late night parties, you could be raped or gangraped,” and “do not go with your friend to dark, isolated areas, what if she is raped or gangraped?” have been pasted on highway dividers in Sola and Chandlodia areas and have since been eliminated.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic West), Neeta Desai clarified that the town site visitors police had sponsored posters regarding highway security, not ladies’s security.

Satarkta Group, an NGO, had created the controversial posters with out the consent of the site visitors police, she claimed.

“The NGO had approached us and said they wanted to organise traffic awareness programmes in schools and colleges and wanted our staff to accompany them. We were shown posters related to traffic awareness. But such controversial posters were not shown to us and were plastered without our consent,” Ms. Desai mentioned.

She added that the posters have been instantly eliminated when the difficulty was delivered to their discover.

Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took a swipe on the BJP-led authorities, saying the posters uncovered the state of girls’s security.

“The BJP government in Gujarat talks about women’s empowerment, but the ground reality is completely different. In the last three years, more than 6,500 incidents of rape and more than 36 gang rapes have occurred in Gujarat, with more than five rapes per day,” the AAP mentioned in a press release.

“The chief minister and BJP leaders talk about women’s safety, but today in a big city like Ahmedabad, these posters express the reality of Gujarat. Our question to the CM is whether the women of Gujarat should go out of the house at night or not?” it mentioned.