AP top cop's U-turn: Sexy clothes not ONLY factor for rape

January 04, 2012 12:26

Andhra Pradesh DGP V Dinesh Reddy, who landed in a controversy for his remarks linking women's fashionable dresses to increase in rape cases, today said he did not mean to degrade women and had only mentioned a "social
study".

The state police chief had sparked a controversy on Friday last when he attributed the increase in rape cases to women provoking men by wearing "flimsy and fashionable" clothing.

"I had said that provocative fashionable dresses, was perhaps one of the factors (behind increase in rape cases). But I did not say that it was 'the factor'," the Director General of Police said.

The top cop's remarks had earned the wrath of political parties and women organisations, who strongly condemned it.

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