“Are you single or married?”, “What’s your phone number, sweetie”, “Main tumse shadi karna chaahta hoon”... are some of the pesky calls that female cops handling Delhi police’s women’s helpline have to contend with daily.
Over 40 per cent of the female cops who handle the women’s helpline receive abusive or obscene calls. The callers are not even deterred by the fact that they are speaking to policewomen.