CRIME

GPS-enabled smartphone can be your best friend in crisis. It can send SOS messages and calls during crisis, and send your location details to your prime contacts – just with the help of an app.

What should be the treatment for offenders? Why are women expected to forgive those who offend them? Every day too many incidents of sexual harassment take place in BMTC and Metro, which go unreported most of the time.

“The acid was spreading through my body and had penetrated deep into my skin, but still the doctors didn’t offer me any first aid or treatment,” recalls Haseena, who was attacked in 1999.

A tale of two little girls in Bangalore – Meghala, 6 and Disha, 3. Both of them fell sick around the same time. Disha recovered quickly and is back to her bubbly self. Meghala died on 17 July. Was she a child of a lesser god?

The Central government has submitted its plan to regulate the retail sale of acid, to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, 16 July 2013. In view of this, Citizen Matters reporter Bosky Khanna went on to do a reality check on the sale of acid in Bangalore. Here is what she got.

Life isn’t the same for the residents of Malleshwaram’s Temple Street, who relive the blast even in their dreams.

This past year, women and girl children in the city have been unsafe as before. Here is a quick summary of key developments including what citizens were doing.

In the recent case of sale of babies by Get Well hospital, apparently, the doctor was found indulging in the act in 2010. So why was this not stopped then?

A huge number of private security services are said to be functioning without a license, swamping the market.

Bengaluru witnessed four rape cases in less than a week. Reams have been written about how media and society should react when a person is sexually assaulted. There have been protests against the insensitive reactions and sensationalisation of such assaults. But have things changed?

Residents have to put up with youngsters doing wheeling late at night. Increasing theft cases and violent retaliation when confronted are a norm here. Police say, they will act if there is a written complaint.

Citizen Matters spoke to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru South) Sonia Narang on the elders’ murder case at JP Nagar last week.