Kiran Sethi is a police officer in Delhi, India, known for organizing women's self-defense and police services training camps throughout India, for which she was honored by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in 2015. [1] [2]
Kiran Sethi is a police officer in Delhi, India, known for organizing women's self-defense and police services training camps throughout India, for which she was honored by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in 2015. [1] [2]
Kiran Sethi's family comes from Delhi. She studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before joining the police in 1987. [2] She holds the rank of Sub-Inspector of police (SI), and often investigates cases of sexual assault and child sexual abuse. [2] She is a chief trainer in the self-defence course 'Prahar', which by 2015, had trained more than 5,000 school and university students. [2] [3] She has also trained more than 200 hearing and sight impaired students in self-defence. [4] Organising the largest demonstration of self-defence by school students resulted in her name being entered into the Limca Book of Records. [5] In 2014, while off-duty, Sethi saved a blind girl from being kidnapped and assaulted by a drunken man. [6] [7] [8] [9]