00:00All right, joining me right now is Dr. Kiran Bedi.
00:03Thank you, ma'am, for taking the time out and joining us this evening.
00:06I just want to, you know, get an understanding from you
00:09because there's been a fair amount of politics at the back of it,
00:12but will there be tangible change in the national capital?
00:16You have a gang rape at the back of it.
00:19The top university of women in Delhi decides to go offline, go online.
00:25I just want to get an understanding.
00:26The Supreme Court stepping in.
00:28How much of a difference will it make?
00:30Or once again, will this be just lip service?
00:33I've been saying this again and again,
00:36that we're not addressing the root cause.
00:39And root cause is the loss of family control.
00:44Because every family is a small unit.
00:47And these boys and these men are coming from these homes.
00:52It's a failure of the home.
00:54I'm not excluding police.
00:55I'll come to the police later.
00:56But I think if you're seized of the matter, it's a matter of social failure.
01:02It's a home failure.
01:03It's a failure of parenting.
01:05I think we need to address the social issue up front.
01:08Up front.
01:10That what's happening in the homes.
01:12Why?
01:12Who are they?
01:13Who's creating these villains and these goons?
01:16There's somebody's sons.
01:18There's somebody's brother.
01:19And somebody's husband.
01:20What kind of control?
01:22Because the crime is happening before the police is arriving.
01:26So you are only reacting.
01:28I'm looking at crime prevention also.
01:30But I think we need to understand that damage has already been done till the police arrives.
01:37Now let's work it backwards.
01:39Why are we looking at total family collapse?
01:42I think we need to somewhere fix in and bring the family control and family responsibility.
01:47Account for and hold the parents responsible for what they're creating in the society.
01:53But they continue to generate these.
01:55So I think this is one area.
01:57If the Honorable Supreme Court is into it.
02:01I think let's address the root cause of the problem.
02:04Because these men are not born rapists.
02:06They've become rapists.
02:08Out of lack of parenting control.
02:11So parental responsibility should be fixed.
02:14And somewhere by law or otherwise I do not know.
02:17But so far I don't address this issue at all.
02:20And when you go back to some of these parents.
02:22They say,
02:23We need to bring in what comes between the police and this decontrol.
02:32So I think we need to address this.
02:34What we do is very important.
02:36Rest is crime prevention.
02:38Now in this crime prevention.
02:39Dr. Bedi, I want to ask you.
02:41But Dr. Bedi, the question I'd like to ask you is.
02:45What you suggest is something that has been echoing across this country.
02:49But this is generational.
02:50You know, changing conditioning will take generations.
02:53How do you fill the gap in?
02:55You know, there have been certain tangible, you know, options that many people are speaking of and loudly at that.
03:02Chemical castration is one such option which is followed in even, you know, countries which look at humane laws.
03:09Should India seriously look at an option of chemical castration?
03:13On the other hand, there has been a petition which has been lying with the Delhi police as well as
03:20the courts of women police officers in civil clothes, especially in areas where, you know, public areas as well as
03:29colleges and schools where girls are concerned.
03:32I would say that a mass movement of verification of past criminals and past sex offenders and past such like
03:41delinquents, mass, mass constant beat verification of people on past records and particularly those on bail for these offenses.
03:50There's bails need to be reconsidered.
03:53So bails, that means a mass verification of all past records of all these deviants who come on record.
04:01Third is anybody on bail for sex offence should become the electronic ankling.
04:06Electronic ankling means that you are on bail with an electronic GPS ankle, which means after this, your mobility is
04:16now under watch so that we know where else, because how much will you, how many policemen will you be
04:22having in how many parks?
04:24It needs a massive mobilization.
04:26So remember, that need not, that could be on the anvil, but I think anybody, anybody on sex offence after
04:35this and past can be brought under GPS-related ankling, which is available, which is done in many democratic countries
04:44of the world, is electronic ankling on the ankle so that hereafter their movement is coming under GPS.
04:55But Dr. Bedi, you know, what about naming and shaming?
04:58We have so many sexual offenders in this country.
05:01Once we start plastering their pictures all across, we've spoken about this before, but it is never really, you know,
05:08implemented in many cases.
05:12Third is the same elected local representatives at all levels, panchayat, corporate, MLA and MPs.
05:21I think they need to have these mohalla meetings and going down.
05:24They need to speak out about these family controls.
05:28They need to talk about these ankle controls.
05:30I don't see any one of them speaking out for the women.
05:36I don't see them.
05:37See, service will not do.
05:39They need to go house to house and start talking about family and home responsibility and also about ankling, also
05:46because verification of past criminals.
05:49And also police need to strengthen its beach system.
05:52It needs to strengthen its beach system, which verifies house to house past criminal records.
05:58And anybody who's out on bail verify and maybe the court could say mark attendance, mark attendance with the police
06:04once a week.
06:05So anklet and better crime control.
06:08And of course, expeditious trial is an option, but that is not in our hands.
06:13I would say these are community linked and leadership linked, electronically linked.
06:19I think these are very, and of course, family responsibility is critical now.
06:23House to house, and that could go back to the local representatives who could really go house to house to
06:29say, this is not acceptable.
06:35Fair point.
06:35Thank you, Dr. Bedi, for taking the time out and joining us.
06:38As usual, thank you for making strong points and points that we really need to not just ponder and possibly
06:44implement.
