I read a couple of article quoting Delhi police's insensitivity towards rape victims.
- http://www.firstpost.com/living/from-the-delhi-police-six-reasons-why-women-deserve-to-be-raped-269957.html
- http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp?filename=Ne140412Coverstory.asp
You are entitled to leave your house unlocked when you go on a vacation, such an act is certainly not illegal. You may also insist that your house not be burgled then.
But if thieves do break in to your apartment, the police would have to look for the burglars and also explain you to lock up your apartment when you leave town. If the police tell you to be more careful, is it derelict of them? If their only action is to tell you to be more careful, then it certainly isn't acceptable. But apart from doing their duty of catching the victim, they also tell you to be careful in future, would we cry hoarse?
If you have Rs100,000 in cash, would you drink with strangers? You won't, right? Why would you, a woman, drink with strangers when you intrinsically have with you something very valuable?
If you still had to carry that amount of cash, would you carry it in a revealing package? If you did and got robbed, would someone be wrong admonishing you for being stupid?
Does it mean that a robber or rapist is right in what he does? Of course not. Yet, it is prudent to be careful, right?
As to the "callous" nature of Delhi police who say that women sometimes exaggerate about being raped, do read this. Do you think the woman was raped?
Women sometimes confuse rape for being unhappy after having sex, maybe because the expected payout did not happen. How many stories have we read of women who lodged a police complaint that their boyfriend raped her because he refused to marry her. Is this rape? Only a convoluted mind would consider this to be rape.
Let the authors of the links at the top understand that it's not just the police (Delhi or elsewhere) who seem to be callous. It's the women who sometimes (note my use of "sometimes") also not seem to know what rape means. While the act of rape is absolutely abominable, not every act of sex where the woman wakes up unhappy is an act of rape as well. For a more detailed understanding of this subject, I would recommend this link.
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