State Womens Commission chairperson Jyoti Panigrahi, who had quoted controversy by stating in her “Pipili” report to the government that she did not come across allegation of gang rape, said on Friday the AIIMS report establishes her observation. “I have not gone through the AIIMS report as yet. But what I gathered from news reports, it did not find evidence of gang rape. Branding the girl as a gang rape victim without any basis is an insult to her,” she said.
via AIIMS experts find no evidence of rape in Pipili case – The Times of India.
The victim was, however, strangled, says the news report …
No wonder India has such a terrible record vis-a-vis violence towards women. State Women’s Rights Commission heads believe that ‘branding’ someone a gang rape victim is an insult to the victim. It isn’t. Being labelled a rapist is an insult. Rape is an insult ….
IMHO, until society stops looking at the rape victim as a someone ‘who has lost her honour’ and starts seeing her as a ‘victim of a violent’ crime, you are not going to see much improvement in sexual violence towards women. It is not the woman’s fault, nor is it her crime. She is the victim. The criminals are those who rape, and those who stigmatise the woman
So true! Mindsets are the toughest things to change!
call me an extremist: These assholes should be killed in full public. With brutal torture and live screening on all possible channels.
Other f*ckers should get shivers before they think about committing any crime against women.
actually no 😀
i prefer castration as a punishment. It would become a living walking example as to what would happen if anyone committed a crime. And, in a society like India which values ‘masculinity’ – it would be a very effective deterrent