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Home secretary rebuffs RSS Chief's India,
Bharat remark
Friday January 04, 2013 03:48:19 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: There can be no basis to distinguish
between rural and urban India when it comes to crimes against
women, union Home Secretary R.K. Singh said Friday following RSS
chief Mohan Bhagwat's remark that "westernisation" in Indian
cities was the reason behind increasing cases of rape.
"There is no basis for making distinction between India and Bharat,"
Singh said on the sidelines of a function Crime and Criminal
Tracking Network and System here.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Bhagwat had said in Assam
that crimes such as rape "hardly take place in Bharat, but they
occur frequently in India".
"You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be
no such incidents of gang-rape or sex crimes. They are prevalent
in some urban belts. Besides new legislations, Indian ethos and
attitude towards women should be revisited in the context of
ancient Indian values," Bhagwat had told a gathering of RSS
workers in Silchar, Assam.
The RSS chief's controversial remark comes days after the death of
a 23-year-old woman who was brutally gang-raped on a moving bus in
south Delhi Dec 16. The incident has led to loud protests in Delhi
and elsewhere to demand justice for the woman and stringent
anti-rape laws and more security.
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