Women's Pipe Dreams
Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. According to the National Crime Records Bureau 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. Out of these, 24,470 were committed by someone known to the victim (98% of the cases).
Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. According to the National Crime Records Bureau 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. Out of these, 24,470 were committed by someone known to the victim (98% of the cases).
1. “The victim is as guilty as her rapists. … She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop.”
– Spiritual leader and alleged rapist Asaram Bapu on the Delhi gang rape and murder
2. “Boys are boys, they make mistakes.”
– Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi party chief
3. “Young people go drinking and it often leads to law and order problems. Our sisters and daughters are getting spoilt.”
– Sudin Dhavalikar, Goa Public Works Department minister
5. “Rape is a social crime which depends on the man and the woman. It is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.”
– Babulal Gaur, BJP politician and Madhya Pradesh home minister
9. Ninety per cent of rapes are “consensual”.
– Dharamveer Goyat, Hisar Congress spokesperson
12. “Girls should be married at 16, so that they have their husbands for their sexual needs, and don’t need to go elsewhere.”
— Sube Singh Samain, Haryana Khap Panchayat leader
13. “Chowmein leads to hormonal imbalance evoking an urge to indulge in such acts.”
– Jitender Chattar, Haryana Khap Panchayat leader
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