In under a month’s period, Andhra Pradesh has seen three shocking crimes on women, including setting a woman on fire in Vijayawada, sending shock waves over the public.
On October 13, Vijayawada police hurried to rescue a girl and a boy, Chinnari and Nagabushanam, burning up in flames at Hanumanpet.
When the police arrived at the location, Chinnari, 24, surrendered to her burn injuries while Nagabushanam gave a statement to the police that the two of them committed suicide, before he also died.
Chinnari’s father accused that Nagabushanam set her ablaze.
As no CCTV cameras were available at the spot where the inferno occurred, no recording was available.
In the police probe, police discovered more petroleum on Chinnari’s body than Nagabushanam’s.
Chinnari worked as a nurse at a close-by Covid Care Center (CCC) and originated from a small village close to Vijayawada.
Within the span of three days in the same city, Divya Tejaswini, an engineering student, was stabbed to death at her house in the Kristhurajapuram region.
At the point when police arrived at Tejaswini’s home, they found Nagendra, a boy from the same locality with her and also a couple of stab wounds on his body.
Tejaswini, 20, was enlisted in an engineering course in Bhimavaram.
In this episode also, no one saw what exactly happened between the two yet Nagendra claimed to police that Tejaswini attempted to stab him.
Along these lines, a 17-year-old girl’s throat was allegedly cut by an Akhil Sai Venkat in Visakhapatnam on Sunday, which resulted in the girl bleeding to death.
Venkat, a law student, attacked the girl, who was known to be an excellent student, inside a Saibaba temple.
In the last two crimes, the state government provided an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh each to the family members of the minor girl and Tejaswini.
Infuriated over these occurrences, Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy deputed Disha special officials Deepika Patil and Kruthika Shukla to visit the families of Tejaswini and the minor girl.
Mekathoti Sucharita, Home Minister, visited both their families and spent some time with them. Reddy additionally met the family members of Tejaswini.
Back in February, pointed toward cracking down upon crime against women, the Andhra Pradesh government rolled out an application, Disha, committed to protecting women.
Following consecutive attacks on women in extremely less time, Reddy advised that all women should download the application, beginning from teenage girls.
He said female students should be educated to utilize the application in schools and universities.
Responding to the crimes on women, a women’s empowerment campaigner Indira Priyadarshini Tirunagari, situated in Vijayawada said now is the correct time for families to educate their sons about respecting and protecting women.
Tirunagari, who teaches specially-abled children as well, said to IANS, “I also blame the law and order situation. I don’t know what the police are doing. The roads are not at all safe.”
As an individual who works towards upholding the Visakha Act, pointed toward containing sexual harassment at working environments, Tirunagari said parents are not educating boys.
Tirunagari stated, “Unlike earlier times, crimes on women are being committed by educated people as well.”
In the interim, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) cadres have protested against crimes on women in Visakhapatnam on Monday.
Vangalapudi Anitha, TDP head and Telugu Mahila president reached out to the Visakhapatnam police chief against the crimes.
Anitha stated, “It is appalling to note that increased and repeated attacks on women in the state in general and Visakhapatnam in particular. This (minor girl case) is the third ghastly attack on women in a span of two to three weeks.”
She claimed that the government is trying to hush up the attacks on women by basically rendering financial compensation to the casualty’s family.
she asserted, “Such washing away of responsibilities by the government through financial compensation is only encouraging the perpetrators to repeat such attacks against women.”
