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

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Rajnath Singh in 2015.

Biography

Kiran Sethi's family comes from Delhi. She studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before joining the police in 1987. She holds the rank of Sub-Inspector of police (SI), and often investigates cases of sexual assault and child sexual abuse. She is a chief trainer in the self-defence course 'Prahar', which by 2015, had trained more than 5,000 school and university students. She has also trained more than 200 hearing and sight impaired students in self-defence. Organising the largest demonstration of self-defence by school students resulted in her name being entered into the Limca Book of Records. In 2014, while off-duty, Sethi saved a blind girl from being kidnapped and assaulted by a drunken man.

Martial arts achievements

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from the World Karate Organization in 1999 * Winner of National Competition by Taekwondo Federation of India in 2000 * Represented India in 15th World Cup in 2006

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sethi, Kiran Indian women police officers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)