'Why Was She Playing Tennis at Night?' Karnataka Minister on Gang-Rape

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

His predecessor questioned how a sexual assault by two could be called gang-rape. Now Karnataka's new home minister, commenting on a gang-rape by security guards at a tennis club in Bengaluru, appears to blame the woman.

"This is unfortunate. A woman from Tumkur was near the tennis club at 9.30pm. I am told she wanted to learn tennis. At that time, why was she waiting near the tennis club to learn tennis is the question. We are investigating and checking everything," minister G Parameshwara commented on Thursday.

The 34-year-old woman was attacked by two guards at the club near Bengaluru's well-known Cubbon Park on Wednesday night. She had gone to the club asking for membership and had reportedly been asked to come back the next day.

The guards allegedly spotted her at the club's parking lot and offered to escort her out. They allegedly took her to a deserted stretch and assaulted her.

The minister today said: "I didn't make that statement...I said the incident happened at 9.30 in the evening and police were quick enough to arrest those two persons. That's all I said...the media twisted my statement."

Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said Mr Parameshwara should resign.

"I believe this is not the first time he's made such statements. Not only is it insensitive, it doesn't send the right message. If he is not interested in his work... he should step down," Mrs Gandhi said.

Mr Parameshwara, who is also the state Congress chief, is the latest Karnataka politician caught making ill-advised comments in recent months.

Last month, when a 22-year-old call centre employee was gang-raped by two men, then home minister KJ George had said: "How is it a gang rape if two people rape? Shouldn't there be at least three or four people for it to be called gang rape?"

Days later, he was replaced by Mr Parameshwara.


'Why Was She Playing Tennis at Night?' Karnataka Minister on Gang-Rape

 

[Star Wars]

Chutiya Minister

 

[EAK]

LOL..Seriously you should standardized MRI scan for your ministers before joining .. what's wrong with them.. someone earlier said enjoy the rape..and now a theory of gang rape must be done by more then two men and now this.. its getting ridiculously funny every passing day..
ON TOPIC : Sympathies for poor lady..may the culprits get severe punishment

 

[Maarkhoor]

I heard Hindu mobs patrolling on streets for cow protection may be they prefer Cows over Girls and woman would that these mods patrol streets to save the women but I believe our neighbors more interested in Cows rather than the women.

 

[Brickwall]

somebody ask that idiot minister, why the hell is state sleeping at that hour.Where was police, who was supposed to protecting citizens

Seriously we need some law or better street justice tackle this type of minister.

This type of idiotic comments are becoming their trademark.

 

[Kaniska]

Chutiya Minister

Although I do not like Congi people...But even the same question to my mind, what is she doing at night 9.30 and playing Tennis?...That does not of course discount the crime of the rapist, but i am even surprised why women does not take little bit of precaution about their own safety...It is always better to be safe rather than sorry.

 

[jamahir]

Although I do not like Congi people...But even the same question to my mind, what is she doing at night 9.30 and playing Tennis?...That does not of course discount the crime of the rapist, but i am even surprised why women does not take little bit of precaution about their own safety...It is always better to be safe rather than sorry.

bangalore now is a city of white collar and blue collar migrants and the white collars think wrongly that bangalore outside is how their offices generally are... these white collars do not usually look at the real society outside of their home-to-office and office-to-home comfort routine.

i think bangalore is crime capital of india, beating delhi.

Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said Mr Parameshwara should resign.

the fool, maneka gandhi, should first ask her colleague, nirmala sitaraman, to resign because nirmala had made similar filthy statements during the 2009 attack on ladies in a mangalore city disco by a sanghi group, sri ram sena.

 

[Brickwall]

Although I do not like Congi people...But even the same question to my mind, what is she doing at night 9.30 and playing Tennis?...That does not of course discount the crime of the rapist, but i am even surprised why women does not take little bit of precaution about their own safety...It is always better to be safe rather than sorry.

Common man, if we have to regulate the timings when women can go, or that we need to ask the girls to carry something to protect themselves, then whats difference between us and Taliban.

In that case we are worse then somalia, where rule of law cease to exist.

 

[Kaniska]

Common man, if we have to regulate the timings when women can go, or that we need to ask the girls to carry something to protect themselves, then whats difference between us and Taliban.

In that case we are worse then somalia, where rule of law cease to exist.

Dear friends....Do not you think i do not understand it...But think silently...why would you suggest to your familly women?..If i would have been in Bangalore, then definitely, i would suggest them to not to go after 8 PM...This is reality of India man...It is not West...

 

[jamahir]

If i would have been in Bangalore, then definitely, i would suggest them to not to go after 8 PM.

sure, but that cannot be a permanent solution, yes??

it is for the citizens of bangalore to clean up their city, by forgetting their obsessive colleges and jobs for some time and clean up their neighborhood and the larger city.

and that should do by joining progressive political movements because those are the ones who will oppose and remove the regressive, backward and criminal thinking that cause incidents like this rape or amaanat case in december 2012.

 

[Sky lord]

Dear friends....Do not you think i do not understand it...But think silently...why would you suggest to your familly women?..If i would have been in Bangalore, then definitely, i would suggest them to not to go after 8 PM...This is reality of India man...It is not West...

So how far do you take this?

Today you tell women they should not go out after 8 PM . Then something happens to some girl at 8 so you tell your women not to out after 6 and so on and so on, until finally you tell them not to leave the house without a male guardian. Then you stop educating them ( where is the need, they are just sitting at home anyway), you take awAy their right to drive (after all what happens if you have an accident and a man is in the other car).

Fewer and fewer women outside means that society becomes even more hostile to women and Eventually, we become Saudi Arabia.

The answer is to pull the minister out by the ear and give him a tight kick and then insist that enough budget and training is provided to t he police to ensure the safety of a woman even if she decides to walk alone at 3 am in the morning down a dark alley singing "old king cole" at the top of her voice.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Chutiya Minister

Going by some similarly disgusting statements made by conservative politicians in the US and Pakistan, the anecdotal evidence suggests that these attitudes are tied to conservative religious beliefs.

 

[Spectre]

Going by some similarly disgusting statements made by conservative politicians in the US and Pakistan, the anecdotal evidence suggests that these attitudes are tied to conservative religious beliefs.

Patriarchal mind-sets alone is to blame. Religion is not a factor - Referring the whole Bouquet not only Hinduism.

I think most communities in rural and to an extent India barring a few exceptions are highly patriarchal in their mindset.

 

[Bang Galore]

Going by some similarly disgusting statements made by conservative politicians in the US and Pakistan, the anecdotal evidence suggests that these attitudes are tied to conservative religious beliefs.

Except that this minister is from the Congress party & the man at the centre of the controversy is a highly educated individual, with a liberal outlook.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Patriarchal mind-sets alone is to blame. Religion is not a factor - Referring the whole Bouquet not only Hinduism.

I think most communities in rural and to an extent India barring a few exceptions are highly patriarchal in their mindset.

True, I should have worded it better, but I didn't want to get into a long winded response. Regressive patriarchal attitudes can exist in the absence of conservative religious views, though more often than not one sees the two together, each reinforcing the other.

Except that this minister is from the Congress party & the man at the centre of the controversy is a highly educated individual.

Would you describe his socio-religious views (outside of this particular incident) as being liberal?