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Police obtain restraint order on rapist interview

Last Updated 03 March 2015, 20:28 IST

A British filmmaker’s interview of one of the December 16 gang-rape convicts for a documentary, in which he showed no remorse, triggered a storm on Tuesday.

The government took a serious view of the matter, as the Delhi Police lodged an FIR and secured a court order restraining the media from carrying the interview.

The parents of the December 16, 2012, gang-rape victim reacted angrily to the remarks made by Mukesh Singh in the interview, where he seeks to blame their daughter for the horrific incident. They called it shameful and demanded that he be hanged.

The FIR, which mentions no name, was registered under IPC sections relating to statements conducing to create public mischief, intentional insult with intent to provoke, breach of peace with intent to cause or which is likely to cause fear or alarm to the public, word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman, and under the IT Act provisions of punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, at the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police.

Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said: “We have registered an FIR on the basis of media reports, and will investigate. Whosoever is found guilty, we will take action against them.”

Late on Tuesday evening, the Delhi Police moved Metropolitan Magistrate Puneet Pahwa at Patiala House here and obtained an order restraining the media from broadcasting, publishing or transmitting the controversial interview till further order, said police spokesman Rajan Bhagat.

Filmmaker Leslee Udwin, on her part, said the film was her attempt to examine the attitude of men towards women, and that there was nothing sensational in it. She also claimed she took permission from the then Director General of Tijar jail, Vimla Mehra, before interviewing Mukesh in the prison for BBC.

Taking the incident of the convict being interviewed in custody very “seriously”, Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Tihar jail Director General Alok Kumar Verma and sought a detailed report on it urgently, said official sources.

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(Published 03 March 2015, 20:28 IST)

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