# Punjab’s Saanjh Rahat Kendras have registered 1,069 cases in two years, DGP says 2026-08-06T07:20:11+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Punjab Police's Saanjh Rahat Kendras have registered 1,069 cases and screened 1,656 people over the past two years, Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said, according to Hindustan Times. Started with two trained counsellors in Mohali, the centres now operate at civil hospitals in SAS Nagar, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib and Jalandhar, offering counselling, legal aid, crisis intervention and rehabilitation to women facing domestic violence and abuse. Yadav cited a woman escorted to safety and her parental home, with legal proceedings begun against the accused, after her husband allegedly assaulted and threatened her, and a pregnant woman abandoned by her family who was treated for nearly two months at PGI, suffered a miscarriage, and was later helped into employment. He also cited the Jagriti programme, under which police sensitised 11,75,010 children across 12,482 schools, and the Women Help Desks initiative's 69,329 outreach programmes over five years. Special DGP Gurpreet Kaur Deo said the wider SAANJH ecosystem, launched in 2011, has strengthened police-public ties. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The case and screening totals, together with the Jagriti and Women Help Desk figures, describe a community-policing effort operating at real scale, and the two individual cases Yadav cited give texture to numbers that could otherwise read as abstract. But every figure and case account here comes from Punjab Police itself, with no independent assessment of how the women fared once their cases closed, and two success stories cannot describe outcomes across the Kendras' full caseload. Readers would still need separate detail on staffing, funding and monitoring, and on whether comparable centres exist beyond the four districts named, before judging the programme's overall reach. An independent review of the Rahat Kendras' longer-term outcomes would be the clearest test of that reach. ## Coverage - www.hindustantimes.com Tags: Punjab Police, Saanjh Rahat Kendras Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/punjab-polices-saanjh-rahat-kendras-helped-over-1000-women-in-distress-says-dgp/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/punjab-polices-saanjh-rahat-kendras-helped-over-1000-women-in-distress-says-dgp/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.