“During a political meeting, Asha Mirje, a leader of India’s Nationalist Congress Party and a member of a women’s commission, asked why the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang raped on a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012, was out with her friend late at night.

Referring to the victim of one of India’s most publicized and horrific gang rapes, Mirje said: “Did Nirbhaya really have go to watch a movie at 11 in the night with her friend?””

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/a-female-indian-politician-said-rape-can-happen-because-of

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