DGP Dinesh Reddy Remarks on Flimsy Clothes of Women

Andhra Pradesh DGP V Dinesh Reddy reportedly told a press conference in Hyderabad on Friday that police cannot be faulted for rise in rape cases and instead blamed women for provoking men with fashionable clothing.

This remark of DGP was strongly dismissed bt the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. Asked for his reaction at a press conference, Chidambaram said: "I strongly disagree with that statement. Everyone is entitled to dress the way he or she pleases as long as he or she has regards to the occasion, the place and the context. Obviously, you don't wear whole lot of clothes to play football or tennis and you don't wear swimwear and go to a cocktail party". He said there cannot be any kind of policing and "certainly not by a DG of police".

However, later DGP Dinesh Reddy said that his comments had been misinterpreted. He said, what he meant was one of the factors behind rape cases was the provocative dresses worn by women over which police had no control.

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