More laws can't make up for good policing

Every time a law for protecting or strengthening women's rights fails to deliver , a small media-savvy coterie of NGOs starts a hysterical campaign for making it more stringent. The government of the day obliges by adding a few draconian provisions to placate the NGOs and their allies in the media as it helps deflect attention from its failure in implementing existing laws with honesty. Since most of these laws are passed as knee-jerk reactions , their 'use-by date' is over even before women for whose benefit the law has been passed get to know of its provisions or intent.

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