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Everyone must watch India's daughter: Nirbhaya's father

| | Mar 05, 2015, at 04:37 pm
New Delhi, Mar 4(IBNS) As 'India's Daughter', the documentary based on the 2012 Delhi gang-rape, faces a ban in the country, Nirbhaya's father said on Thursday that everyone should watch the film.

"Everyone should watch the film. If a man can speak like that in jail, imagine what he would say if he was walking free," the  father said.


"The documentary exposes what is happening. I don't understand why it was banned. A ban will only make people curious. But if  the country has taken a decision, we have to support it," he told NDTV.

The documentary by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin includes interviews of Nirbhaya's parents, doctors,  police, lawyers and one of the rapists. It was aired by the BBC on Wednesday night.

The documentary kicked up controversy as it includes certain comments of Mukesh Singh, one of the four men sentenced to death for rape and murder holding the woman responsible for the fate she met.

In India it was to be telecast on NDTV.

While a Delhi court ordered a ban on it, the government  said it would not allow the film's screening and investigate how permission was granted for the rapist's interview.

"Talking in Parliament does not help. Why are the convicts still alive? Why have they not been hanged yet? Who are they to tell a woman what to wear or what to do? How will the campaign 'Beti Padao, Beti Bachao' (educate, save our daughters) work if our daughters are not alive?" Nirbhaya's father said.

Nirbhaya's mother said, "It is not about the ban. Why are these convicts still alive? It seems we will die fighting for justice but they will outlive us."

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