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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) asked the Delhi authorities what steps had been taken by the authorities to capable up the vacant posts of chairperson and members successful the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW).
A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia observed, “The committee performs definite important functions for the payment of women. In presumption of the functions assigned to the committee nether conception 10 of The Delhi Commission for Women Act, 1994, determination cannot beryllium immoderate crushed whatsoever for not filling up the vacancies successful the bureau of the chairperson and members and for not providing capable unit to DCW”.
“Let instructions beryllium sought by the Delhi authorities counsel arsenic to what steps person been taken by the authorities to capable up the vacant posts and guarantee that the committee does not adjacent down. List adjacent Wednesday,” it ordered.
The tribunal was proceeding a nationalist involvement litigation by Buxar MP Sudhakar Singh seeking directions to capable up the vacant posts of chairperson and members of the DCW wrong a time-bound period.
The petitioner’s lawyer said the DCW was “closed” since January 24 arsenic determination were nary members oregon staff.
The Delhi authorities counsel said helium had to verify the assertion made successful the PIL.
The petitioner contended that it was an irony that successful spite of a pistillate Chief Minister, the commission, which works towards the payment and information of women, was non-functional adjacent successful the look of information connected transgression against women.
“The paralysis of the DCW has led to disruption and non-functioning of its statutory programmes and mechanisms, including the Sahyogini Family Counselling Unit, Helpdesk, Rape Crisis Cell, Crisis Intervention Centres, Mobile Helpline, Mahila Panchayat programme, and Women Helpline 181, resulting successful a cascading nonaccomplishment of the protective model envisaged for women successful distress,” the petition said.
“The urgency of the contiguous Petition is underscored by authoritative transgression data. As per the Crime successful India 2023 study of the National Crime Records Bureau, released successful September 2025, Delhi recorded implicit 13,000 crimes against women successful 2023, the highest among metropolitan cities, including much than 1,000 rape cases. In a metropolis facing specified levels of gender-based violence, the continued paralysis of the statutory assemblage specifically created to support women aggravates vulnerability and results successful denial of entree to justice,” it added.
