Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh has blamed pornographic websites for rising cases of rapes in India. Singh claimed that a survey conducted by his ministry found that pornographic content is easily available and that porn websites are responsible for such violent crimes.
He also said that his ministry has identified 25 such websites and has written to the Union Home Ministry, seeking a ban on these sites. Singh's comments came amidst massive protests across the country over a spate of rape cases, many of them against children as young as a few months.
In Indore, a six-month-old infant was raped and killed on Friday, in the basement of a building. The accused is the victim's uncle. Identified as Sunil Bheel (21), the accused was caught on CCTV camera, at around 4.45 am on Friday, carrying the infant on his shoulder. He had an argument with the victim's mother after which he allegedly committed the crime.
A postmortem of the infant's body, which was carried out at the state-run MY Hospital in Indore, suggested that she might have been raped before being killed as her private parts bore an injury mark, a source said.
Commenting on the crime in Indore, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Saturday said that in 92 per cent of cases, minor girls were raped by a close relative.
"The Indore incident has left me distressed. How can someone do something so terrible to a little girl? The society needs to peep within themselves. The administration has taken quick action and arrested the accused. We will ensure that he gets severe punishment without delay," he tweeted.
