BBC
January 29, 2014
There has been outrage in India after a politician, who is also a member of a government panel for women, blamed women for rape.
Asha Mirje said women too were “responsible to an extent” for rape and that their “clothing and behaviour” played a part.
Women’s rights activists, the Congress party and the main opposition BJP said her comments were “unacceptable”.
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