“If you can’t prevent rape, you might as well enjoy it.”

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India’s top police official was under fire today (Nov 12) for saying, “If you can’t prevent rape, you might as well enjoy it.”

Central Bureau of Investigation chief Ranjit Sinha made the comment yesterday during a conference about illegal sports betting and the need to legalise gambling. The CBI, the country’s premier investigative agency, is India’s equivalent of the FBI.

Mr Sinha said that if the state could not stop gambling it could at least make some revenue by legalising it. His remarks about rape were in this context.

The remarks have caused outrage across India, which in the past year has been roiled by widespread protests following the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in New Delhi.

Mr Sinha said today that his comments were taken out of context and were misinterpreted, but angry activists called for his resignation.