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Dr Mirge has apologised, now put it to rest: Women's commission
Updated On: 30 January, 2014 08:22 AM IST | | Hemal Ashar
<p>After Dr Asha Mirge, member of the state women’s commission, made suggestions that women who were raped ‘invited trouble’, the chairperson clarified that the comments were not reflective of the organisation and conceded that the remarks were wrong</p>
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Hours after one of their fellow members stoked controversy by suggesting that a woman’s clothes and her behaviour were also responsible for rape, Susie Shah, the chairperson of the Maharashtra Women’s Commission, tried to put the matter to rest by saying that the comments were not reflective of the body and were personal opinions of one person.
Residents protest the gang rape of the photojournalist at Shakti Mills last year. Security of women came under the scanner after a woman was gang-raped in Delhi and another was gang-raped in the heart of the city. File pic
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