Sakhya Women's Guidance Cell

    Exposure visit of students to
    Police station and court

On 26^th July 2013, Sakhya Women’s Guidance Cell organized an exposure visit to Police Station and Court for the students placed for field work in order to get them equipped with the knowledge of operation of Police Station and Court for dealing with cases of violence against women.                                                                        

Court visit:

The court visit was conducted from 2:30pm to 3:30 pm on 26^th July 2013. Five students of Nirmala Niketan, College of Social Work were accompanied by Ms. Chatush Singh, Social Worker  to Vasai, Judicial Court . They reached the court premises at 2:30 pm where Ms. Chatush Singh gave a short talk about legal system, structure of court and people who work in the court.They were briefed about the role of family court, the process of filing the case, hierarchy of court, the role of government lawyer etc.Afterwards they were taken to the court rooms to observe sitting arrangement of rooms which gave them insight about the place of trial.

                                                        

Police Station visit

The police station visit was conducted from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm after court visit. The students accompanied by Ms. Chatush Singh, Social Worker reached to Manikpur, Police Station at 4:00 pm. An interaction was organized with Assistant Police Inspector (API) DV Jadhav who gave them orientation about  functioning of Police Station .  The students fielded questions related to violence against women on him to have them all answered.Mr. Jadhav provided them information about misuse of 498A IPC provision. He also explained them bail able, non bail able offence, cognizable and non cognizable offence, case diary, charge sheet.

The visit was a great learning for the students, it enabled them to understand the operation of court and Police Station. The students got an opportunity to have interaction with Police Official to clear their doubt and to get more information on the role of police station. They came to know the procedure how a woman victim of violence can get their case registered in Police Station.