India, July 23 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued a slew of directions to the Delhi government for effective functioning and proper publicity of the city's One Stop Centres (OSC's), aimed to support women affected by violence, taking note of a Hindustan Times report highlighting the dire conditions and shortcomings prevailing in these centres.

HT on June 24 published a report, "Locked doors and empty rooms: Delhi's one-stop centres are falling apart" underscoring the inadequate infrastructure, paucity of staff in the city's OSC's, including the ones in Tihar prison complex, Shahdara, Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial (BJRM) Hospital and Lok Nayak Hospital.

A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed tha...