New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Women’s Commission member Meena Kumari said girls should not be given mobile phones because they talk with boys and later run away with them. Speaking to the media persons she responded to a reporter’s question on increasing rape cases and the State’s plans to reduce crime against women.

She also called for round-the-clock policing of young women. Meena Kumari appealed the parents not to give mobile phones to daughters, if they do, phones should be checked regularly.

नहीं मैडम, लड़की के हाथ में फोन बलात्कार का कारण नहीं है. बलात्कार का कारण है ऐसी घटिया मानसिकता जो अपराधियों के हौसले और बढ़ाती है. प्रधानमंत्री जी से निवेदन है सभी महिला आयोगों को ज़रा सेंसिटाइज करवाइए, एक दिन दिल्ली महिला आयोग की कार्यशैली देखने भेजिए, हम सिखाते हैं इन्हे ! pic.twitter.com/yf1YxC8i6r

— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) June 10, 2021

All these crime against women is due to negligence by mothers, she said. We, as parents and society, have to put a check on our daughters always see where they are going, and which boys they are sitting with. We have to check their mobile phones, girls will keep talking on their phone and then they elope, she added.

No ma’am, a phone in a girl’s hand is not a reason for rape, the reason for rape is a bad social system that affects the mindset of criminals, said Swathi Maliwal, the Chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women in a tweet.

The Prime Minister is requested to sensitive all Women’s Commission members. Send them to the Delhi Commission for one day… to see how we work. We will teach them, she added.