By IANS
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi Government to file a reply stating the steps taken to rehabilitate destitute women like model Gitanjali Nagpal, who are forced to live on the streets of the national capital.
A bench headed by Chief Justice M.K. Sarma asked the ministry of social welfare to state the steps taken to rehabilitate the women on the streets.
“How many homes are there in the capital for such women?” the court asked the government while castigating them for being insensitive to the problems of such destitutes.
It asked the government to frame a policy for the resettlement of such women.
Advocate Surat Singh had informed the court on Sep 12 that more than 2,000 girls like Nagpal were spending their lives on the streets of the city.
“Inform us the steps taken by the state government to rehabilitate these people,” said the court.
Nagpal, 32, who once walked the ramp for top designers, was found by a photojournalist begging at a market in a posh south Delhi locality a few days back.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) swung into action and took her to the VIMHANS Hospital, where doctors diagnosed her as suffering from fear psychosis.
Daughter of a navy officer, Nagpal graduated from Lady Shri Ram College. She left home in 1990 and took to modelling full time. She married a German man, who with their son is now based in Germany.