The city of Kanpur police have launched a mobile application for protecting of women and girl in the country's most populated city. The application is being names as 'SOS' helps a user to send alerts to family and police control room, if a women is spotted herself in a danger. Though this application is available in Google Play Store, it is very hard to locate it as there are many applications in the App Store with the same name.

The police department say they have launched this application to cut down the crime against women in the city. However, this app is only available for Android phones and the police department is working for IOS operating systems too.

(AW: Vamshi)