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Delhi Gang-Rape Convict Blames Victim for the Attack: BBC
- A protest against sexual violence in New Delhi, Feb. 9.
- Associated Press
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/
Indian superstar Anupam Kher says always learn from Pakistani dramas
Mumbai: Famous Indian actor, Anupam Kher has said that he always learn something from Pakistani drama as it meets all the requirements, adding that he will visit Pakistan whenever he gets time.
He expressed his views while talking to Pakistani artist Jahanzaib Awan who reached Mumbai to work in India.
Kher said that many Pakistani artists including Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Adnan Sami have proved with their great performances not only in India but all over the world.
He said that artists do not have any border and both the countries should given opportunities to the artists to perform wherever they want.
It is our responsibility to save the careers of new talent by giving them chance, Kher added.
He further said that there were many relatives living in Pakistan and he will visit whenever he gets time.
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The Girl who cry blood Watch Video
Twinkle Dwivedi of Lucknow, India cries blood instead of tears!
She is one of the three known people in the world with this amazingly weird physical condition that is medically termed as hemolacria – a rare physical condition that causes a person to produce tears that are partially composed of blood.
Twinkle spontaneously bleeds from eyes and other parts of her body without presenting any visible wounds.
In fact, she has been the subject of numerous medical research studies and TV shows such as BodyShock and a National Geographic documentary.
More skeptical views hypothesize that the case might be explained by the so called Münchausen syndrome by proxy, meaning her mother, seemingly the only one to witness her bleeding actually starting, is fabricating the story and somehow inducing the effect on the girl.
She not only cries blood through eyes but also bleeds from her skin, scalp and other parts of her body any time with not a single wound or cut and without feeling any pain.
According to some reports, she may be a patient of Type II von Willebrand, a disease that is based on clotting disorders.
Another report says, she may be a patient of Hematidrosis, a rare clinical phenomenon in which the patient sweats blood.
