Incognito Lt Guv Bedi finds UT safe for women at night

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 19

Puducherry Lt-Governor Kiran Bedi, who has often locked horns with the V Narayanasamy-led Congress government, today declared the UT as “reasonably safe” for women even though she failed to spot any police personnel unless “they too were in disguise” like her.

Unlike Delhi, the Puducherry police reports directly to the elected government there. 

Bedi said she “did not spot any cops” as she drove incognito in the city”, but she “found Puducherry reasonably safe at night”. “But it will be improved,” she added.

The former police officer who was among the first ones to react on the initial response of the police in the Varnika molestation case, allegedly involving BJP leader Subhash Barala’s son Vikas Barala, says women security was top on her mind and she would be “checking it time to time”.

The photograph she has tweeted shows her doing the night check “incognito” as a pillion rider on a two-wheeler. The aim she said was “to personally check on how secure it was for women at night to be on the road or in a public place” in Puducherry.

She said her round indicated the need to ensure police presence with mobility as a strong measure of crime prevention and response.