CBI chief's 'enjoy rape' remark sparks outrage

November 13, 2013 09:01

NDTV reports: CBI Director Ranjit Sinha has landed himself in a massive controversy after he used a remark on rape as an analogy to support his stand on legalizing betting in sports in the country.

"If you cannot enforce the ban on betting, it is like saying 'if you can't prevent rape, you enjoy it'," Sinha had said during a panel discussion to illustrate his point.

"If we can have lottery in states, if we can have casinos at holiday resorts, if the government can declare schemes of voluntary disclosure for black money, so what's the harm in legalising betting? Besides you'll have enforcement agencies to look into it," he said, adding that it was easy to call for a ban than to enforce it.

Sinha's bizarre analogy immediately sparked a major furore, forcing the CBI to issue a clarification.

"The context was an opinion on legalising betting by Shekhar Gupta who was moderating the session. A voice vote was taken from Ravi Sawani and then Rahul Dravid and the Director, CBI made a point that if laws cannot be enforced, that does not mean that laws should not be there," a spokesperson from the CBI said.

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