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Case of sexual aggression of Bengaluru: Interior Minister of Karnataka, G Parameshwara, apologized for his controversial comment on the case of sexual abuse of Bengaluru, indicating his misunderstood and twisted.
Karnataka Minister of Interior G Parameshwara (Photo: PTI)
Bengaluru case of sexual aggression: Karnataka Interior Minister G Parameshwara, apologized on Tuesday for his “”It happens in big cities“Observation about a woman’s sexual abuse in Bengaluru on April 3.
The minister’s comment had caused a controversy, and many demanded that he apologize. His comment also caused strong criticism of the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party, which calls him “irresponsible.”
Speaking with journalists today, Parameshwara said his statement was misunderstood. Hi, he also said that his words had crowded bone and that he has always worried about the safety of women.
“My statement was misunderstood and my words were twisted. I always worried about the safety and protection of women. If any woman has been injured by what I said, I regret and apologize for the same thing,” said the interior minister of the State.
A CCTV video, which appeared on social networks on April 6, showed a woman abused of a man in a street in Bangalore.
In the video, the man could be seen approaching the woman already groped, before fleeing from the place.
When the video caused outrage, Karnataka Interior Minister said incidents such as sexual abuse sometimes occur in a large city like Bengaluru, thus inviting criticism.
Row on the minister’s comment
On Monday, the BJP demanded that the leaders of the Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra congress look for Parameshwara’s resignation about their comment.
BJP’s national spokesman, Shehzad Poonawalla, claimed that Parameshwara is a “series criminal”, claiming that he had made similar comments trivializing crimes against women sexual aggressions against them in the capital of Karnataka.
The BJP leader told journalists that the leader of the Karnataka Congress has exhibited a shameless sample of the “most shocking, misogynist, patriarchal, sexist and unpleasant” mentality by trivializing an incident that has shocked the country, especially the women of the state.
#Look | In the comments of the Interior Minister of Karnataka, Dr. G Parameshwara, about the case of sexual assault of the Bengaluru woman, the leader of BJP, Shehzad Poonawalla, says: “The sample of the misogynist, patriarchal, sexist and un shown more shocking mentality of Karnataka has trivially … pic.twitter.com/or0wtw9lrt– ANI (@ani) April 7, 2025
Meanwhile, the police launched an investigation and registered a case under sections 74, 75 and 78 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in relation to the incident.