<p>The committee on preventions of crimes against women and children headed by V S Ugrappa has recommended the government to send a special squad to Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada to investigate the large of number of unnatural deaths in the taluk in the last five years.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Ugrappa said that the panel visited various places in Dakshina Kannada district recently and was shocked to learn that there had been 500 unnatural deaths, a majority of them women, in Belthangady taluk alone during the last five years. <br /><br />“The district administration and the local police are clueless about the large number of deaths. We have sought that the government immediately constitute a special investigation team to probe the deaths”, Ugrappa said.<br /><br />He said the panel observed that there were 149 medical scanning centres in Dakshina Kannada - more than the number of hospitals in the district. <br /><br />Sex ratio<br />The district has a skewed sex ratio. This could be due to female foeticide after illegal sex determination test at some of these centres, Ugrappa said.<br /><br />He said the conviction rate in Mangaluru and other rural pockets of Dakshina Kannada pertaining to rape cases, atrocities against women, dowry cases was very poor. <br /><br />There had been only 18 convictions out of the 601 cases of atrocities against women, registered in Mangaluru between 2005 and 2015, he pointed out.<br />DH News Service</p>
<p>The committee on preventions of crimes against women and children headed by V S Ugrappa has recommended the government to send a special squad to Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada to investigate the large of number of unnatural deaths in the taluk in the last five years.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Ugrappa said that the panel visited various places in Dakshina Kannada district recently and was shocked to learn that there had been 500 unnatural deaths, a majority of them women, in Belthangady taluk alone during the last five years. <br /><br />“The district administration and the local police are clueless about the large number of deaths. We have sought that the government immediately constitute a special investigation team to probe the deaths”, Ugrappa said.<br /><br />He said the panel observed that there were 149 medical scanning centres in Dakshina Kannada - more than the number of hospitals in the district. <br /><br />Sex ratio<br />The district has a skewed sex ratio. This could be due to female foeticide after illegal sex determination test at some of these centres, Ugrappa said.<br /><br />He said the conviction rate in Mangaluru and other rural pockets of Dakshina Kannada pertaining to rape cases, atrocities against women, dowry cases was very poor. <br /><br />There had been only 18 convictions out of the 601 cases of atrocities against women, registered in Mangaluru between 2005 and 2015, he pointed out.<br />DH News Service</p>
