Delhi bus rapist: 'girls are more responsible for rape than boys'
Mukesh Singh the rapist, who brutally molested the girl in 2012 in the gang rape scandal, shows no remorse for his actions. He is appealing against his death penalty and blames the victim for the crime.
In an interview for BBC4 documentary India's Daughter he says: "You can't clap with one hand – it takes two hands. A decent girl won't roam around at night. A girl is more responsible for rape than a boy… about 20 per cent of girls are good."
The victim Jyoti Singh a medical student was gang raped by five men in a moving bus when she was returning after watching the movie The Life of Pi.
He also claims during the interviews that boys and girls are not equal. "Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes," he says.
Jyoti's father described the comments as "perverse and derogatory" and said he hoped "these devils are hanged soon and not housed safely in jail". India has a population of 1.2 billion. Not all people are of the same view as Mukesh Singh, but in a country where statistics reveal one rape occurs every 20 minutes, we need an overhaul of thoughts and views.
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