Police alone can’t prevent rape amid alcohol use, ‘obscene content’: Madhya Pradesh DGP

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh DGP Kailash Makwana has said that police alone cannot prevent rape, pointing to moral decline in the society.

Kailash Makwana told reporters, after a review meeting of his department, that incidents of rape come from many reasons including ‘the internet, mobile phones, the availability of obscene content, alcohol’, The Indian Express reported.

Expanding on the role that internet plays he said ‘people can connect from anywhere at any time through mobile phones. There is a decline in moral values in society. It is not possible for the police alone to deal with it’.

The obscenity available on internet according to the DGP distorts ‘young minds from an early age, and this, undoubtedly, one of the reasons behind the rise in such incidents.’

Pointing to ‘gradual decline’ of moral values he said children no longer listen to their parents and teachers.

‘We are seeing that even within homes, people are not keeping watch over each other. Earlier, children used to listen to their teachers and parents. There was a sense of shame or respect, but many of those boundaries have now disappeared,’ he was quoted as saying.