Commissioner of Police Satyapal Singh, who had recently claimed that the city is safe for women at the launch of a Mumbai Police college outreach initiative, must be eating his words now.

Though riots and terror attacks have been unsuccessful in taking the sheen off Mumbai’s never-say-die spirit, flagrant cases of violence against women surely have. The city, which was always touted as safe for women, is now a hotbed for violent and sexual crimes against them.