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| Subject: Retarded poLICE comments fuel India's rape fury Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:29 am | |
| A senior Indian policeman has provoked furious reactions from women's rights campaigners after advising women to avoid rape by not travelling after dark and carrying chilli powder to throw at potential attackers.
The comments by Commissioner KP Raghuvanshi, head of police in Thane, a satellite city of Mumbai, fuelled widespread anger following the gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi on Sunday.
Ranjana Kumari, one of India's best known women's rights activists and director of the Centre for Social Research in Delhi, was scornful of the suggestion.
"This is just a sexist sort of solution. They want women to stay at home. And how is chilli powder going to help against six or seven men?" she said. Advertisement
Kajol Batra, a 28-year-old student in the capital, called the suggestion "idiotic". "We should not be scared of going out and we shouldn't have to protect ourselves with cooking ingredients," she said.
Demonstrations triggered by the Delhi attack continued in India on Thursday with protesters, mostly students, blocking a national highway in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir to demand a death sentence for the six men accused of Sunday's attack, and vigils in some large cities.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/police-comments-fuel-indias-rape-fury-20121221-2bqci.html#ixzz2FfJWVPBl
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