By Syed Nissar H Gilani

Protecting women in India starts with teaching them to strike first and ensuring the state finishes the fight without delay. 

The Baramulla case and a Kashmiri athlete’s response in Agra prove that physical readiness and speed in policing and courts form the only reliable path to lasting safety.

A young woman and her male friend walked through Jalsheeri Drangbal in Baramulla when attackers seized them. The men beat the pair, sexually assaulted the woman, and filmed the entire crime to circulate the footage as a public humiliation. 

Senior Superintendent of Police Gurinderpal Singh placed the investigation on a war footing. The survivor knew only the first names of her attackers, but investigators combined technical evidence with human intelligence to identify and arrest Shakir Ahmed Lone and Mohammed Ashraf within days. 

That police speed stands as a model. 

Trials must now match it so that arrests convert into convictions before evidence fades or witnesses face pressure.

The same principle of personal readiness appeared years earlier when the J&K Thang-Ta Association sent its state team to Agra for a national........

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