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Asaram Bapu says, Delhi gangrape victim should have pleaded for mercy from rapists

New Delhi, Jan 7:Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu was Monday reported as saying that the Delhi gang-rape victim should have called her culprits brothers and recited the Saraswati mantra, provoking both the ruling Congress and the




“I am sure he knows in the Hindu chintan (thought), woman of the country have been accorded a place of pride and dignity. Similarly in our constitution also, there is a clear provision of granting a status of equality to a woman and no discrimination. In this case, for him to make a statement in relation to a crime which has shocked the conscience of the country... Sorry, it is not acceptable,” he said.



The 23-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving bus on the night of Dec 16, and brutally beaten. She succumbed to her injuries Dec 29 in a Singapore hospital.

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