Statistics shows that crimes against women are on the rise. Given this, any move by a government to increase women’s safety should be welcomed. But Uttar Pradesh’s anti-Romeo squads, set up by chief minister Yogi Adityanath with the aim of protecting women from public harassment, has been in the news for the wrong reasons.
Police personnel were appointed to these squads which started operations in March, but soon the initiative was hijacked by fringe groups that misused this for moral policing and in some cases targeting minorities.
If this was not enough, an investigative report by a TV news channel recently exposed these squads indulging in extortion and falsely implicating innocent people.
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