Arm college girls in AP with knives: Women panel chief

The Women's Commission of Andhra Pradesh wants to distribute knives to college girls so that they can protect themselves from crimes like rape.

The panel's chairperson Nannapaneni Rajakumari, who turned emotional after meeting two rape victims in a government hospital in Visakhapatnam, also said rapists should be "skinned" and "paraded" in public.

"We are planning to enact a legislation. When some men behave like wild animals and resort to such atrocious acts, I think there is a need to equip girls with knives. A law is needed for this," she told reporters.

"We will skin them (rapists). Police, too, should not mask the rapists' faces whenever they are caught. Instead, they have to be paraded in streets, thrashed with footwear and brooms and only then lodged in police station," Rajakumari, a former legislator, said.
 

The Women's Commission head said like the culprits in the Nirbhaya case, rapists here too should be hanged or at least sentenced to jail for lifetime.

She called for mandatory installation of closed-circuit television cameras in colleges, hostels, work places and hospitals should to check crime against women.