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June 2014

RR Patil

June 11, 2014 .

Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said  “Crimes like rape have increased due to downslide of moral values. Even if we provide one policeman per house we can’t stop crimes against women,"  in Maharashtra Legislative Council.

Patil also said that crime against women is less in Maharashtra compared to other states.

"UP records the maximum number of crimes. 6.34 per cent rapes are committed by brother and father, 6.65 per cent rapes by close relatives, 42 per cent by known persons, 40 per cent rapes committed by luring for marriage,” he said. (wait.. WHAT?)

There’s more. The Home Minister said, “Rise in atrocities against women due to obscene images used in advertisements.”

Oh yea.

Jun 11, 2014
Ramsevak Paikra

Ramsevak Paikra, the minister responsible for law and order in India’s central Chhattisgarh state, made the remarks as he spoke to journalists, according to AFP.

“Such incidents (rapes) do not happen deliberately. These kind of incidents happen accidentally,” he said late on 8 June, 2014.

Paikra, who is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was asked for his views on gang-rape when he made the comments.

Jun 11, 2014
Akhilesh Yadav

A woman journalist asked Akhilesh about the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh to which he had said: “I hope you have not faced any danger!”

When the journalist replied in the negative, the chief minister said, “Thank you. You should propagate this.”

The journalist’s question was in the backdrop of the Badaun case and another gang-rape incident in Azamgarh, the constituency of the Samajwadi Party chief.

Jun 11, 2014
Mohan Bhagwat

Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the right-wing RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), believes that rapes are an urban crime shaped by westernisation, and are not a matter of concern in rural India where traditional values are upheld.

Mr Bhagwat said, “Crimes against women happening in urban India are shameful. It is a dangerous trend. But such crimes won’t happen in ‘Bharat’ or the rural areas of the country. You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be no such incidents of gang-rape or sex crimes.”

He added, “Where ’Bharat’ becomes 'India’ with the influence of western culture, these type of incidents happen. The actual Indian values and culture should be established at every stratum of society where women are treated as 'mother’.”

Mr Bhagwat’s comments come at a time when the death of a young medical student, who was gang-raped in Delhi, has impelled introspection on attitudes towards women in a country where a rape is reported nearly every 20 minutes.

This statement  was made on January 4, 2013

Jun 11, 2014
Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam’s statement triggered a controversy at a time when women’s security has emerged as one of the key issues in the elections, especially against the backdrop of the December 16, 2012, gang rape of a paramedical student in Delhi.

Mulayam as quoted as saying, “Rape ke liye phaansi dena ghalat hai, ladkon se ghalti ho jaati hai, hum satta mein aaye to kanoon mein badlav karenge (Handing death sentence for rape is not fair… boys make mistakes… there will be changes in the law if we come to power).”

He added boys and girls fall in love but part ways due to differences. “When their friendship ends, the girl complains she has been raped.”

This statement was made on April 10, 2014

Jun 11, 2014
#rape culture #indian #politics
Babulal Gaur

On 6 June 2014, Babulal Gaur, the home minister responsible for law and order in the BJP-run central state of Madhya Pradesh said: ‘This is a social crime which depends on men and women. Sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong.’

He added: ’Until there’s a complaint, nothing can happen.’

The BJP dismissed Gaur’s comments as an expression of his personal views, and not the party’s.

Jun 11, 2014
#rape culture #indian #politics
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