While the squad was initially formed to enhance women's safety through scooter patrols across the city, it has now been assigned a role in conducting public awareness drives.
It is worth mentioning that the Chief Minister is trying to ensure that the culprits in cases of crime against women get strict legal punishment on time.
Uttar Pradesh has also secured second position in the country in disposal of pending cases of crime against women while it ranks fifth in terms of registration of FIRs and investigation of such cases.
The court's observation came during a hearing on a petition moved by Jharanabala Patra on non-registration of e-FIR filed by her at Cuttack Sadar police station.
In terms of kidnapping of women, West Bengal is in the third position with 7,403 cases after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Average 77 rape cases daily in 2020; crimes against women down from 2019: NCRB data
Khattar also started a WhatsApp Women Helpline through which women of the state can also complain through WhatsApp at the number 9478913181 in case of emergency.
The National Crime Records Bureau had reported early this year that crimes against women had gone up in Uttar Pradesh by a whopping 20 per cent between 2016 and 2019. In 2018, as many as 4,322 women ~ of them 1,411 minors ~ were raped in the state.
On August 15, a 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in Lakhimpur Kheri district and her body found in a sugarcane field.
The incidents come even as the Uttar Pradesh government has passed an order to set up 218 new fast-track courts to expedite trial in cases of crimes against women and children.
