Yes Ms Bhatti's case is worse.

amazingly, you don't have anything about the shiv sena's reaction, in an editorial in saamna, where they blame the way girls dress for incidents such as this. there are a couple of insightful articles in outlook. and this happened a while ago. finally, everything i have read said that there were three girls, not a girl and 'her brothers' - they had apparently gone to marine drive after checking out colleges for admission. and finally, to whoever said 'i'm surprised they .. let her go in'... do you think a sixteen-year old girls (or girls, or boys) from a lower-middle-class family would dare to resist a policeman's request? naiive, to say the least.

Quoting the Shiv Sena on gender is like quoting Rush Limbaugh on drug abuse: an idiot's tale, sound and fury signifying nothing. I wouldn't dignify it with comment.

... everything i have read said that there were three girls, not a girl and 'her brothers'...

Most coverage I've seen mentions a group including male friends. 'Her brothers' isn't a phrase used anywhere in this post.

do you think a sixteen-year old girls (or girls, or boys) from a lower-middle-class family would dare to resist a policeman's request?

Is the victim lower middle class? The coverage I've seen doesn't specify. I've been on a Bombay beach late at night, harassed by cops, and seen upper middle class kids pull it off by casting attitude.

Shiv Sena people are complete retards...

see this

The standards at the Times have fallen quite a bite this past year. Turning into a British tabloid type paper.

so, judging from the image, this dick actually posed for a photo...

Al Mujahid: so what? does a prize come with that? what a meaningless comment

If anyone should be set on fire, it's the rapists.

'Police hai, hai!'

The incident has left a black mark on the Mumbai police force.

I can't wait for the day the No-Contact Jacket enters the marketplace. Oooo, if I ever get my hands on this puppy I'm going parading on Marine Drive with nothing on but the jacket and my chaddis, auto-electrocution be dammned!

Perhaps the Shiv Sena would be interested in some wholesale purchases since holding men accountable for their own actions is waaay too difficult...

Male brutality is a fact of life. That's what the propoganda-spewing Saamna is saying with these words:

To see girls dangle a cigarette openly is worrisome. If a man is incited by such clothes, who can one blame?

You blame the police - who in this case were the perpetrators, you blame the so-called culture police which makes you think that a woman in jeans is loose and asking for it. Blame those priests who run a respected college in Bombay and tell their female students: If you dress up like this how can we concentrate?

A rape is a rape is a rape. There are no two ways about it. Even if a woman is walking about in the nude nobody has the right to touch her.

These filthy animals are not just spewing sexism. It's classism too. Pramod Navalkar is quoted as saying:

In the good old days, girls from Ghatkopar would not venture to Chowpatty.

It's a free country Mr. Navalkar. People can 'venture' out to Chowpatty even if they're from Vasai. Who the hell are you? Instead of condemning the rape this is what these self appointed leaders have to say? Not the fact that policeman in question benefitted from favouritism to get his job in the first place?

These people make me sick to the bone. And I really mean it when I sing like the great man

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

I just found this article about a woman who was raped, the rapist was found guilty, AND then he had the audacity to propose to her during his sentencing.

I mean, I don't get it. I understand the legal systems are different and victims/accused have the opportunity to talk to one another in court, but this is just absurd. Could you imagine the person who goued out your eye, raped you, and made you go through four facial surgeries has the BALLS to ask you to marry him??

sorry, im just disgusted, appalled, and angry that the victim was victimized again, in public, by the same filthy person.

It's the bullshit that's churned out day after day by Bollywood that makes are sensibilites so deplorable. Case in a point: Anil Kapoor and Meenakshi Seshadri, no Juhi Chawla starrer Benaam Badshah. The IMDB summary saves me the trouble of typing this:

Found in a garbage bin, abandoned by his biological parents, a young man grows up to a paid assasin, kidnapper, and rapist (Anil Kapoor). One of his rape victims' is Jyoti (Juhi Chawla), who is raped on the day of her marriage to a doctor groom. Her life ruined, unwed, she decides to convince her rapist to marry her, and goes to live in his neighborhood. But her rapist will not marry her, however, she continues to pursue her goal, and after feigning a pregnancy she does convince him to allow her to move in with him - amongst ruins, without a roof. She soon starts to transform him, with considerable success.

Garbage, just garbage. Centuries of sexism passed along generations. This, my friends, is our culture - where women have to "accept their fate." Where the girl child may get a free education, but is called "paraya dhan" and sold off to produce babies. Littly baby-blue wearing babies. Not baby-pink. What a fucking disgrace.

And what happened to that cop who raped a girl on Marine Drive? I say chop off his pecker and feed it to the nuts (that's you Thackeray, Nawalkar and co.) disguised as a veggie dish.

What you say is right Potty Master. That's why I get pissed off when I hear "desis" dissing Americans for being racist or discriminatory. Hell man, try India on for size. You'll be dying to return to the wide open arms of Whitey.