After witness protection, Delhi will also become the first State to implement the Justice J S Verma committee’s recommendations on women safety. In the special Assembly session on women safety to be held on Monday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to implement some of the recommendations.

“The report came out on January 23, 2013, but nothing has been done till date. The report had recommended several steps to be taken by State governments to ensure women safety. Delhi is now going to show the way,” said sources.

The report had criticised the behaviour of the police towards women complainants and those probing cases of crime against women. “The insensitivity of the police to deal with rape victims is well known….. Political interference or extraneous influence in the performance of the statutory duty by a policeman cannot be condoned,” the report states.

“What the police are doing in Delhi is exactly what the report had said. The police respect a patriarchal form of society,” said an AAP leader.