How Delhi’s ‘One-Stop Centres’ In Courts, Meant To Assist Women With Medical, Legal Help, Are Failing Or Flailing
The Delhi gangrape of 2012 shocked India, contributed to the fall of a government and led to the establishment of 733 centres meant to help women who had been abused or attacked. In 2019, the Supreme Court listed what these centres should have: from medical and legal help to air conditioning and video conferencing. Instead, a visit to four of six centres in Delhi’s courts, India’s most unsafe city for women, and right-to-information queries revealed centres not doing what they were meant to do.