A former top cop of Karnataka has landed in a massive controversy after he said that Asha Devi, the mother of the Delhi 16 gang-rape and murder victim, had a ‘great physique’ and he could ‘just imagine how beautiful her daughter would have been.’
A former top cop of Karnataka has landed in a massive controversy after he said that Asha Devi, the mother of the Delhi 16 gang-rape and murder victim, had a ‘great physique’ and he could ‘just imagine how beautiful her daughter would have been.’
According to a Bangalore Mirror report, former DGP of Karnataka Police HT Sangliana made the statements at an award function meant to honour women, including Asha Devi, and their work.
That wasn't the only problematic statement by the former top cop that evening. Sangliana reportedly also said, "If you are overpowered, you should surrender, and follow up the case later. That way we can be safe, save life, prevent being killed."
People at the event said that Sangliana’s statements were shocking and disgraceful.
Earlier, on the fifth anniversary of the horrific incident, Indian media highligted how little has changed for Nirbhaya's parents. Depressed and down, Asha Devi says that every time a girl is raped in the Capital she feels that it is her daughter."Every day a Nirbhaya is gang-raped and killed in the city. Whenever, I hear about any such incident, I feel that it is happening with my daughter." Both mother and father want that a speedy justice delivery system in place.
But they doubt that will happen"Are these laws capable enough to stop Nirbhaya-like incidents from happening?", questions Nirbhaya's father Badrinath Singh. The man has been visiting the doors of the courts for last five years yet he is still waiting for the criminals of this gruesome act to be sent to the gallows.
"Even now in our daughter's case we are visiting courts and still after the final judgments, the criminals have not yet been punished," Singh told DNA. The matter is still with the Supreme Court.
This week Delhi Police opposed, in the Supreme Court, a plea filed by one of the four death-row convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang-rape and murder case for review of its verdict upholding capital punishment awarded to him. The apex court had on May 5 upheld the death penalty to the four convicts - Mukesh (29), Pawan (22), Vinay Sharma (23) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31), saying the "brutal, barbaric and diabolic nature" of the crime could create a "tsunami of shock to destroy a civilised society".
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 "HT Sangliana (left) at the event. Seen with him are cop D Roopa and Asha Devi")
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