Kiran Sethi

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

Biography

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 Assistant sub-inspector of police (ASI), 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 5000 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]

Martial arts achievements
  • Black belt, 1999, from the World Karate Organization[8]
  • Winner of National Competition by Taekwondo Federation of India in 2000
  • Represented India in 15th World Cup in 2006

References
  1. "Kiran Sethi felicitated on international women's day - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  2. "Karate cop helps survivors hit back". The Times of India. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. "Self-Defence Training". Delhi State Legal Services Authority. 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. Singh, Abhay (27 December 2017). "Lady Singham teaches 200 differently-abled girls self-defence lessons". Millennium Post. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  5. "Largest Self-Defence Demonstration". Coca-Cola in India. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  6. Staff Reporter (2014-02-21). "Woman cop saves visually challenged girl from drunk goon". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  7. "Delhi: Woman ASI Saves Blind Girl From Being Kidnapped". The Newswire. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  8. "Woman police officer foils bid to kidnap girl; man held". The Indian Express. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  9. "Alert woman cop saves blind girl from abduction". Business Standard. IANS. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
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