Kiran Sethi Explained

Kiran Sethi is a police officer in Delhi, India, known for organizing women's self-defense and police services training camps throughout India, for which she was honored by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in 2015.[1] [2]

Biography

Kiran Sethi's family comes from Delhi. She studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before joining the police in 1987.[2] She holds the rank of Sub-Inspector of police (SI), and often investigates cases of sexual assault and child sexual abuse.[2] She is a chief trainer in the self-defence course 'Prahar', which by 2015, had trained more than 5,000 school and university students.[2] [3] She has also trained more than 200 hearing and sight impaired students in self-defence.[4] Organising the largest demonstration of self-defence by school students resulted in her name being entered into the Limca Book of Records.[5] In 2014, while off-duty, Sethi saved a blind girl from being kidnapped and assaulted by a drunken man.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Martial arts achievements

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kiran Sethi felicitated on international women's day - Times of India. The Times of India. 2018-12-09.
  2. News: Karate cop helps survivors hit back . 9 December 2018 . The Times of India . 9 March 2015.
  3. Web site: Self-Defence Training . 2018 . Delhi State Legal Services Authority . 9 December 2018.
  4. Web site: Lady Singham teaches 200 differently-abled girls self-defence lessons . Singh. Abhay. 27 December 2017 . Millennium Post. 2018-12-09.
  5. Web site: Largest Self-Defence Demonstration . Coca-Cola in India . 9 December 2018.
  6. News: Woman cop saves visually challenged girl from drunk goon. Staff Reporter. 2014-02-21. The Hindu. 2018-12-09. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  7. News: Delhi: Woman ASI Saves Blind Girl From Being Kidnapped . 9 December 2018 . The Newswire . 20 February 2014.
  8. News: Woman police officer foils bid to kidnap girl; man held . 9 December 2018 . The Indian Express . 21 February 2014.
  9. News: Alert woman cop saves blind girl from abduction . 9 December 2018 . Business Standard . IANS . 20 February 2014.

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