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Safety measures for women after Uber rape incident

by IBNS 10 Dec 2014, 08:58 pm

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IBNS): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced a bouquet of measures for women's safety in the Capital.

The measures included an increase in the number of police patrol vans and making installation of GPS mandatory in all public utility vehicles, media reports said.

The ministry said in a series of tweets that the number of PCR vans has been increased to 1,000 in Delhi.

The government also decided installed 377 CCTV cameras in Delhi, another 1500 soon, sources said.

The measures were taken following a national outrage over the rape of a woman on Friday allegedly by the driver of an Uber cab she had hired. The woman was raped apparently 3-km away from her house in Inderlok, near the Zakira bridge and the busy Inderlok metro station.