Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Apr 6: “Violence does not know boundaries. It has direct link with corruption, poverty and illiteracy levels,” opined city police commissioner, Seemant Kumar Singh. He was speaking after inaugurating a University Grants Commission-sponsored seminar, ‘Violence and Violence Around’, organized under the aegis of Besant Evening College in the city on Tuesday April 5.

“Violence can be snuffed out with police force. But to root out violence, the origin of violence needs to be probed. Towards conducting a thorough grass root level study of the problem, media can don an important role. Media also can play critical role in stopping violence. There is a need to ensure that justice and private lives of individuals are not encroached upon,” he said.

“In the past, women used to be subjected to torture on a larger scale. Even now, about 25 percent of women suffer from domestic violence at least once during their life time,” noted Dakshina Kannada chief and sessions judge, H R Deshpande.

Women’s National Education Society president, Kudpi Jagadish Shenoy, presided, Principal of the college, Prof Sulochana D Rao, organizing secretary, P Satish Kumar Shetty, Pundikai Ganapayya Bhat and Nagar Narayan Shenoy were at the dais.