A BBC documentary containing
shocking statements by one of six gang rapists who sexually
tortured a 23-year-old medical student on a bus in 2012 has
sparked an outcry in India, sources said Tuesday.
The victim "should not have opposed resistance," Mukesh
Singh told BAFTA award-winning British filmmaker Leslee Udwin in
a 16-hour interview on death row at New Delhi's Tihar prison.
"If she had stayed calm she would have saved her own life,"
the rapist said of the young woman, who died of her horrific
injuries nine days after the brutal attack in which her male
companion was beaten with an iron bar to within an inch of his
life.
"Good girls should never be out at nine o'clock at night,"
the convict said.
"People have a right to teach such women a lesson...the
woman is always more guilty than the man".
Singh went on to say the death penalty, which was
introduced after that rape and murder case sparked a national
and international outcry, will be a danger to women because "it
will induce rapists to kill their victims to prevent them
speaking out".
Singh drove the bus where the horrific attack took place
over the course of several hours.
He was convicted and sentenced to death along with
co-defendants Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, and Akshay Thakur. A
fifth defendant was found dead in prison before he could be
tried.
The transcript of the interview was made public by British
tabloids on Monday.
Udwin's documentary is to be broadcast March 8, which is
International Women's Day.
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