Bengal Women’s Commission records over 5000 cases of atrocities in one year: Official

KOLKATA: Around 5,000 cases of atrocities against women, including incidents of domestic violence, were recorded by the West Bengal Women’s Commission and addressed by courts in the past one year, a senior state government official said on Wednesday.

Besides those cases, there must have been countless others which were handled by the counsellors and officials of the Commission at the initial stage during the period before reaching court, she said.

“Around 5,000 cases were recorded by the Women’s Commission and addressed by the courts including Lok Adalat on family and gender issues,” the official told PTI after inauguration of the stall of the state Women’s Commission at the International Kolkata Bookfair ground.

Source: PTI News

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