In a soon-to-be-released documentary by a British filmmaker, one of six men who raped and murdered a young woman on bus in India’s capital in 2012 blames the attack on his victim and her male companion.

“You can’t clap with one hand—it takes two hands. A decent girl won’t roam around at nine o’clock at night,” Mukesh Singh says in the film, according to a statement by the British Broadcasting Corp., which will air it this month.

The assault by Mr. Singh and his friends galvanized public opinion and sparked mass demonstrations across India, leading to the passage of stricter laws against the mistreatment of women.

Mr. Singh and three co-defendants were sentenced to death in 2013 after being found guilty of crimes that the judge who presided over their trial said had “shocked the collective conscience” of the country. They have appealed.

Still, rape remains common and conservative quarters of society advocate restrictions on women’s freedom and blame Western influence and the greater liberties women enjoy in urban India for inciting violence against them.

During an interview in the prison where Mr. Singh is being held, he also said, “boy and girl are not equal. Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes.”

The BBC is to air the film, “India’s Daughter,” directed and produced by Leslee Udwin, on March 8, International Women’s Day.

On Monday, the victim’s father called Mr. Singh’s reported statements “perverse and derogatory.” He said: “I hope these devils are hanged soon and not housed safely in jail.”

The woman Mr. Singh raped and killed was 23 at the time of the attack. She and a 28-year-old male friend were on their way home after watching a movie in an upscale mall when they were attacked.

Indian law bars naming victims of sexual assault.

“When being raped, she shouldn’t fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape,” Mr. Singh says in the film, according to the BBC. If she hadn’t resisted, the rapists would “have dropped her off after ‘doing her,’” he says.

Prosecutors in the case said the attackers repeatedly inserted a metal rod into the victim, causing severe internal injuries. She was dumped by the side of a road. She died 13 days later while being treated at a Singapore hospital.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal during his trial, Mr. Singh said he was at the wheel of the bus on which the woman was raped but did not know an attack was in progress as he drove around Delhi.

“I’m sorry. I could not save her. Please forgive me if you can,” he told the Journal, when asked about what he would say to the victim’s family if he ever met them.

Mr. Singh and the three others sentenced to death in the case have appealed to the country’s Supreme Court. A fifth defendant died while awaiting trial. Police say he killed himself, something his family disputes.

The sixth attacker was a juvenile at the time of the crime and was ordered to be held in a reformatory for three years, the maximum allowed under India’s youthful offender laws.

News courtesy: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/03/02/delhi-gang-rape-convict-blames-victim-for-the-attack-bbc/