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Women’s outfits take exception to comments

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Women’s organisations have taken objection to certain comments made by Chief Justice of Karnataka Cyriac Joseph and president of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission S.R. Nayak against women. Terming the comments as “objectionable”, the organisations have asked the two to apologise.

The organisations have aired this in an open letter written to Mr. Cyriac Joseph and Mr. Nayak.

The women’s organisations were referring to Mr. Cyriac Joseph’s speech at a function to release a book in which he urged women to dress “modestly” for the “safety and security of the people”. On Mr. Nayak’s comment asking women not to venture out in the night, the organisations said: “they were not aware of any law – social, ethical or legal that prohibits women from public spaces in the night … Are the night hours reserved for men in this country?” They said that the level of abuse and violation of women in homes and in family, which are assumed to be “safe” places for women, were not safe at all.

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