Delhi Rape Victim - In a shocking new interview banned across India, one of the rapists convicted in the 2012 New Delhi bus rape case has spoken up. According to Mukesh Singh, the victim is to blame for her rape. His comments have caused outrage across the world, whereas Indian authorities claim the video interview had violated four statutes in their penal code.
Singh's video interview with regards to the Delhi rape victim are part of the publicity campaign for Leslee Udwin's film, "India's Daughter." After the interview went viral, the court plans to block the broadcast of the full interview, which is scheduled for release on International Women's Day on Sunday.
As for those who have yet to hear or read about Singh's comments on the Delhi rape victim, his words have only strengthened the appeal for his death sentence.
"He showed no remorse or repentance," says a senior Indian supreme court lawyer, Dharitry Phookan, in an interview with CNN. "Personally, I think the man just made the case of death sentence against him much stronger."
For Singh, the victim is to be blamed for her rape as a "decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night."
"When being raped, she shouldn't fight back," says Singh, adding, "She should just be silent and allow the rape. Then they'd have dropped her off after 'doing her,' and only hit the boy."
Despite the ban on the full interview and film on Delhi's rape victim, "India's Daughter" will still be broadcast in India's NDTV at 21:00 local time. For Udwin, her film only hopes to show that "disease is not the rapists" but that the "disease is in the society."
Indian women have long been subject to gender inequality. Following the Delhi rape victim in 2012, their society has started to speak up against the horror subject against them.
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