NCW to send suo moto notice to K.J. George over his bizarre remark on rape

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Friday said that it would send a suo moto notice to Karnataka Home Minister K.J. George for his bizarre remark that rape by two men is not gang-rape.

NCW chief Lalitha Kumaramangalam said the Karnataka Home Minister is another example of a person who comments on violence over women without pondering over it.

"He doesn't even know what rape means and that is why he has commented like this," Kumaramangalam told the media here.

"We will send him a suo moto (notice), let us see how he responds," she added.

The Karnataka Home Minister had earlier said that he does not consider a rape as 'gang-rape' unless more than two people are involved.

"How is it a gang-rape if two people rape? Shouldn't there be at least three or four people for it to be called gang rape?" George said in his reply while commenting on the alleged sexual assault of a BPO employee by two men in a tempo traveller.