In December, a 16-year-old girl in Calcutta was burned alive. Authorities believe she was targeted as punishment for reporting her gang-rape to the police. Two months earlier, on her way home from the police station after notifying cops about the six men who raped her, she was accosted and raped again. The next time the men came for her, they killed her. Her death sparked protests throughout India. That’s the environment facing many Indian women, particularly in rural areas of the country, who attempt to press charges against their rapists and abusers.

If they’re seeking to report members of their family or community, they can be threatened with death for going to the cops. And on top of that, many women don’t feel safe in police stations; the profession remains dominated by men, and women are often subject to sexual harassment if they walk into the station without being accompanied by a male relative. But Joydeep Nayak, a senior member of the police force in India, is working to change that. Nayak developed an electronickiosk resembling an ATM machine that allows women to discreetly log police reports in public places. The so-called “Instant Complaint Logging Internet Kiosk,” or “iClik,” has been installed in a bank in Bhubaneswar as part of a six-month pilot project to test the innovation.

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