Dehradun Police summon survey firm after report lists city among unsafe for women
Dehradun: The Dehradun police have summoned P-Value Analytics, the private firm behind the National Annual Report on Women’s Safety (NARI 2025), after its survey ranked the city among the top 10 unsafe for women.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajai Singh directed the company’s managing director and the team responsible for data collection and analysis to appear within a week with all documents related to the survey. He warned that if the firm fails to provide satisfactory answers or if the report is found to be based on baseless facts, strict legal action will follow.
The Uttarakhand government had earlier dismissed the report, calling it “not based on facts.” Trade associations and educational institutions in Dehradun also lodged complaints demanding action against the report.
The survey, released on August 28 in the presence of National Commission for Women chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar, drew criticism after P-Value representative Mayank Dhayya claimed it was conducted as part of academic research for university students. He explained that one team handled survey collection while another analyzed the data. Police, however, found his responses unsatisfactory.
According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2022 data, Dehradun reported no rape-murder cases but recorded 8 dowry deaths, 13 cases of abetment to suicide, 184 rapes, and a total of 1,205 crimes against women—27% of the state’s 4,337 cases. In 2021, the city had 10 dowry deaths, 132 cases of cruelty by husbands or relatives, 113 rapes, and 756 total crimes against women, accounting for 22% of the state’s 3,431 cases.
The NARI 2025 report also listed Delhi among the least safe cities for women, with the national capital reporting 14,277 crimes against women.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
