The Supreme Court on Monday (October 5, 2026) said there was a need to create fear in the minds of goons committing crimes against women, while noting there was a feeling that women were not safe in the city, particularly in some vulnerable pockets.
“What is important is to prevent a crime, not what you do after a crime is committed,” the Bench said, adding that the police needed to create fear in the minds of goons and anti-social elements prone to committing such crimes.
We must ensure that every woman in Delhi-NCR should feel safe even at 11 p.m., whether travelling on the roads or the metro,” a Bench of Justices J.B. The Court had, on September 28, 2026, taken suo motu cognisance of news reports about crimes against minor girls and women across Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), observing that such cases underlined a systemic failure on the part of law enforcement authorities. The Court took cognisance of the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at Aastha Kunj Park in Delhi, the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl in the Swaroop Nagar area of Delhi, and the sexual assault of a minor girl inside a moving sleeper bus, which law enforcement agencies failed to intercept while it travelled more than 47 km from Greater Noida to Delhi.
The Court made the remarks while hearing a suo motu case over recent rape cases in Delhi-NCR. “We have to work together. Pardiwala and K. The Bench, which was hearing the suo motu case titled ‘In Re: Recent Rape Incidents in Delhi NCR’, observed that “rape is something which is not at all acceptable to any society.
Vinod Chandran said.
