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GUWAHATI: Assam's Director General of Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta has said that society needs to get rid of its male-centric, anti-women bias and give due recognition and respect to women.
Speaking at a programme organized by the Centre for Women's Studies in association with the Cotton University Teachers' Association at the university campus here on Tuesday, Mahanta further said that a society is considered safe only when there is no crime or violence directed at women, which includes emotional and financial injury.
The DGP said that the time has come to evaluate how women-friendly the nation's courts and police stations are at the present time. For instance, he said, it should be considered whether the present system has been successful in protecting the identity and image of a woman who is compelled by circumstances to become a witness in a court case.
Mahanta further said that especially in Barpeta district, parents take money from the culprits and then force many minor rape victims to change their testimony in court. This type of mentality must be changed, he said.
He urged young social scientists to go the grass roots and change the patriarchal mentality, instead of collecting data on suppression of women and presenting them as papers in academic forums.
The programme was inaugurated by Prof Bhabesh Chandra Goswami, Vice-Chancellor of Cotton University.
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