States told to pick officers for women safety

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all the states and union territories to identify the officers in the Department of Women and Child Development at the district and taluka levels and designate them as protection officers.

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A two-judge bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma directed the chief secretaries of the states, UTS and the secretaries of the Women and Child/Social Welfare Departments to