India, July 24 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday pulled up the Delhi government and the Delhi Police for the poor state of the capital's one-stop centres (OSCs), which are meant to support women affected by violence, after taking note of a Hindustan Times report that exposed dire conditions, staff shortages, and infrastructure gaps at several OSCs.

HT's June 24 report, "Locked doors and empty rooms: Delhi's one-stop centres are falling apart", flagged how centres at the Tihar prison complex, Shahdara, Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial (BJRM) Hospital and Lok Nayak Hospital were operating with little to no staff and minimal facilities.

A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela said the report "gives a telling story o...