New Delhi, April 8 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concern over safety of women in the country and said that mindset of people has to change with regard to women.

Urging to make the country safer and better place for girls and women, a bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma said, "Leave the women alone. The only request we make is to leave the women alone. We don't need helicopter around them, monitoring them, restricting them. Allow them to grow, that's the women of this country will want."

The bench said it has seen real-life cases of women being sexually assaulted when they go out in open to defecate themselves, and remarked that in many places women has to wait till dusk defecate in the open due to the l...