Nirbhaya should have just succumbed to the rape, says Singh in interview.
AB Wire
NEW DELHI: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will telecast a shocking interview on March 8, to be celebrated as International Women’s Day: one of the convicted murderers and rapists in the gang rape and murder of Nirbhaya in 2012, Mukesh Singh – lodged in the Tihar Jail in Delhi – says that the victim was savagely assaulted as she fought back her rapists, and the death penalty imposed on him for that crime will see more women who are raped to be murdered as well.
“When being raped, she shouldn’t fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape,” Singh says in the exclusive interview to the BBC, adding that if Nirbhaya had succumbed to the men’s demands, then she would have been let off after the men had their way with her.
Singh was among six men – including one who was deemed a minor later – who gang raped and brutally assaulted Nirbhaya, an unidentified 23-year-old physiotherapy student, on a moving bus on the streets of Delhi, on the night of December 16, 2012.
Nirbhaya, a name given to her by the media in India, was returning after watching a movie, with a friend of hers. Her friend was also attacked brutally and subdued on the bus by the men. The victims were later thrown out of the bus. Nirbhaya later died of the injuries she sustained in that attack. Mukesh Singh was the driver of the bus.
All the accused were arrested and charged with sexual assault and murder. One of the accused, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in jail. The minor was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in a reform home, while the other four men were sentenced to death by hanging.
Singh’s interview will appear in the documentary ‘India’s Daughter’, by filmmaker Leslee Udwin. Singh also blames women for being raped.
“Women who go out at night have only themselves to blame in case they attract attention of male molesters,” Singh says in the interview, advance clips of which were released to the media.
Singh added: “A decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy is. Boys and girls are not equal. Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night or wearing wrong clothes. About 20% of girls are good.”
He said the rape and assault on Nirbhaya was to teach her and her friend a lesson, to not go about late at night.
Talking about the death penalty imposed on him and three others in the crime, he said: “The death penalty will make things even more dangerous for girls. Now, when men rape, they will not leave the girl like we did. They will kill her after that.”
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Hang him already. And use the short or the standard rope method. Let the bastard suffer.