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NIRBHAYA CASE: In 2012, entire India was shocked by a brutal gang rape happened in Delhi when a 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern, was beaten and gang raped in a private bus in which she was traveling with a male friend. There were six others in the bus, including the driver, all of whom raped the woman and beat her friend. She was not just raped but also beaten with iron bars, prompting widespread demonstrations for Indian women to have greater protection from sexual violence. The woman died from her injuries 13 days later while undergoing emergency treatment in Singapore.

In a recent interview from jail, Mukesh Singh, the nirbhaya rapist, said that women who went out at night had only themselves to blame if they attracted the attention of gangs of male molesters. "A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy," he said. Singh, a slum-dweller who was 26 at the time, was driving the bus when the abduction occurred.

His victim, Nirbhaya (name changed), was returning from an evening at the cinema with a male friend when the six-strong gang offered them a lift in a bus they had stolen.

In an interview for a BBC documentary, Singh also said that had she and her friend not tried to fight back, the gang would not have not have inflicted the savage beating from which she died two weeks later. He added: "When being raped, she shouldn't fight back. She should just be silent and allow the rape. Then they'd have dropped her off after doing her', and only hit the boy."

Describing the killing as an "accident", he denied involvement in the attack itself, but his claims were rejected by the court, which said there was strong DNA evidence against him, and that even if he had not taken part, he should have intervened.

"You can't clap with one hand - it takes two hands," he says in the interview. "A decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy. Boy and girl are not equal. Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes. About 20 per cent of girls are good."

Singh, whose death sentence is currently on appeal, also claims that executing him and the other convicted rapists will endanger future rape victims.

"The death penalty will make things even more dangerous for girls," he says. "Before, they would rape and say, Leave her, she won't tell anyone.' Now when they rape, especially the criminal types, they will just kill the girl. Death."

The lawyers who defended the gang in court express similarly extreme views.

In a previous televised interview, AP Singh, a lawyer, said: "If my daughter or sister engaged in pre-marital activities and disgraced herself and allowed herself to lose face and character by doing such things, I would most certainly take this sort of sister or daughter to my farmhouse, and in front of my entire family, I would put petrol on her and set her alight."

In the BBC documentary, he adds that his stance has not changed: "This is my stand. I still today stand on that reply."

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The interview, which BBC Four will air on its Storyville programme to coincide with International Women's Day (Sunday 8 March at 10pm), will be seen by women's rights groups as compelling evidence of the appalling attitudes shown by many Indian men towards women.