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Rahatkar: Fast track courts must be given a definite timeline
Updated On: 02 December, 2019 08:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
Chairperson of the state's women's commission speaks to mid-day about how the effort to curb crimes against women can be taken forward

A sand sculpture by artist Sudarsan Pattnaik in memory of P Priyanka Reddy draws attention to the spate of crimes against women. Pic/PTI
One can run out of adjectives when referring to the gang-rape and murder of the vet from Hyderabad. Brutal, horrific, outrageous, heinous, venal — one could go on and still not do justice to the barbarity.
Justice though, is key here, said Vijaya Rahatkar, chairperson of the Maharashtra State Women's Commission (MSWC). Rahatkar, who is also the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's women's wing and works out of her Bandra East office, said it is incumbent on all, but especially on women's organisations like hers to evolve with the times and crimes against women.
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