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Another absurd reason for rape: Phones and non-veg food

July 15, 2014 17:06 IST

Image: A girl holds a phone in her hand. The image is used for representational purposes only.
Photographs: Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters

Another day, another absurd reason for rise in rapes in the country. After the Karnataka legislature linked mobile phones to the rise in rapes in the country, on Tuesday, a Bihar minister on also held mobile phones and non-vegetarian food as reasons for surge in rape cases and favoured ban on cell phones among school students.

“Many students misuse mobile phones by watching blue films and hearing obscene songs which pollute their mind,” Bihar Art, Culture and Youth Affairs minister Binay Bihari told reporters outside the assembly.

He said he had caught two students watching blue film on their mobile phone during a visit to a school. “You pay a surprise visit to any school and you will find costly mobile phone in the hands of students in the higher classes,” he said, adding that they also exchanged ‘dirty’ SMSes.

Another absurd reason for rape: Phones and non-veg food

Image: Boys are seen eating chicken during a festival. Image used for representational purposes only.
Photographs: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters

On the other hand, non-vegetarian food contributed to hot temper, he said and cited sermons of sants that pure vegetarian food kept the body and mind pure and healthy.

The minister, who is also an actor and singer in Bhojpuri language, urged that the use of mobile phones by school students be prohibited.

“I will give a suggestion to the education department on this and also make surprise inspections to ensure that mobile phones are not carried by students in school,” he said.

Though there was both advantage and disadvantage of mobile phones, which was a faster means of communications, he said for school students a mobile phone with internet facility was only a source of pollution of their mind. “It’s like issuing licence for a revolver to individuals in the name of self-defence, but misused for criminal purposes,” he said.

Asked if mobile phones were bad for school students, would it be good that phones was carried by leaders in the assembly, he replied in the negative. “I do not carry mobiles inside the House during sessions,” he said.

 

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