No country for a free woman
Updated On: 20 August, 2013 07:17 AM IST | | MiD DAY Correspondent
On Independence Day, the government pledged to make women safer. Three days later, yet another assault on a woman, an American, in the first class of a Borivli local exposed the empty oath, while the railway authorities and the GRP skimmed rulebooks to divide accountability
Women comprise a third of the 75 lakh daily commuters in the metropolitan. Sunday’s attack has resurrected the outrage they feel, specially after a slew of sickly assaults.u00a0
Last week, a pervert was masturbating while strutting at the ladies compartment. In August, three young men threatened a middle-aged woman with a weapon in a first-class coach. The gruesome acid attack at Bandra Terminus which killed Preeti Rathi has her family knocking all possible doors for justice, while the animal who burned her to death is on the run.


