India’s Top Cop: ‘If You Can’t Prevent Rape, You Enjoy It’

Nov 13, 2013
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Ranjit Sinha, chief of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, apologizes for remark that causes outrage across country.

India’s top police official has apologized for saying: “If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it,” – a remark that has outraged the country.

Ranjit Sinha, chief of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, made the remark on Tuesday during a conference about illegal sports betting and the need to legalize gambling. The CBI, the country’s premier investigative agency, is India’s equivalent of the FBI.

Sinha said at the conference that if the state could not stop gambling, it could at least make some revenue by legalizing it.

“If you cannot enforce the ban on betting, it is like saying: ‘If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it,'” he said.

CBI chief Ranjit Sinha

CBI chief Ranjit Sinha

The remarks have caused outrage across India, which in the past year has been hit by widespread protests following the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in New Delhi.

On Wednesday, Sinha said that his comments had been taken out of context and misinterpreted, and that he was sorry if he had caused hurt. Angry activists, however, called for his resignation.

Brinda Karat, leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said Sinha’s comments were offensive to women everywhere.

“It is sickening that a man who is in charge of several rape investigations should use such an analogy,” Karat told reporters. “He should be prosecuted for degrading and insulting women.”

The New Delhi attack on the young woman last December caused nationwide outrage and forced the government to change rape laws and create fast-track courts for rape cases.

New laws introduced after the attack make stalking, voyeurism and sexual harassment a crime. They also provide for the death penalty for repeat offenders or for rape attacks that lead to the victim’s death.

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