Chief Minister Sheila Dikshittonight met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed withhim the prevailing situation in the city arising out ofwidespread protests in the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a23-year-old girl student.
Dikshit apprised the Prime Minister about the steps beingtaken by her Government to ensure a safe environment forwomen in the national Capital.
The Chief Minister also conveyed her views on stepsneeded to be taken by various agencies to instill confidenceof women in the security system, sources said.
She also sought the Prime Minister's intervention indirecting the agencies concerned so that the city can be madea safer place for women, they said.
Dikshit is also understood to have conveyed to the PrimeMinister the need to enhance punishment for those found guiltyin committing heinous crime against women as well as a fasttrack trial of the convict.
Delhi Government has already announced a number of stepsincluding setting up of a control room at Chief Minister'soffice to receive complaints of women and take follow upaction with help of police.
At a meeting with Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shindeyesterday, Dikshit had demanded accountability of seniorpolice officers in the gang-rape incident and sought immediatesetting up of fast-track courts to try rape cases withprovisions in the law even for death penalty in rare caseslike the one that rocked the city.
She had also called for a "serious look" at VIP securitydeployment in the Capital, saying it cannot be an "excuse" fornot providing security to the common man.