Change mindset to deal with crime against women: CJI

AMRITSAR: Taking serious note of increasing cases of crime against women, Chief Justice of India Justice Altamas Kabir said that people's mindset had to change to deal with violence and injustice against women. People are taking crime against women very casually, he said.
Kabir was here on Saturday to lay the foundation stone of new building of Khalsa College of Law (KCL).He, along with the other senior Supreme Court judge Justice D K Jain and chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, chief justice of Punjab and Haryana high court Justice A K Sikri, inaugurated the legal aid clinic at the Khalsa College.
Speaking on the issue of backlog of cases, he said many cases keep dragging on because of slow pace of police investigations. "If we improve the investigation part by police and make mechanisms for out of court mutual settlements, we will see a huge improvement,'' he said. Later, he also addressed a seminar on "Protection of Rights of Children, Women and Senior Citizen", organized by Punjab Legal Services Authority.