In a controversial remark, Uttar Pradesh governor Aziz Qureshi on Monday said incidents of rapes could not be stopped even if entire police force was deployed for women’s safety and only a divine intervention could check such crimes.
Qureshi’s statement comes after SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav stirred up a controversy earlier with his statement that even with 21 crore people in Uttar Pradesh, the number of such cases were the least in the state.
‘Even if the entire police force is deployed then also rape will not end...ocurrence of rape cannot be stopped’, Qureshi, the officiating governor told a TV news channel.
‘It is possible perhaps if the god takes an incarnation and comes down otherwise crime cannot be controlled’, Qureshi said, adding ‘there is a need to create public opinion, an atmosphere against crime and create fear among the culprits’.
‘For stopping crime against women there is a need to change the mentality of society and stern action need to be taken against culprits and it was for stressing this that I had stated that entire police force cannot check rape otherwise, it can stop only when god takes an incarnation and come down’, he told another TV channel.