Abu Azmi claims ‘rape’ would possibly happen if males keep alone with their daughters

On Friday (December 17), Maharashtra Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Abu Azmi courted controversy after he urged that staying alone together with your daughter or sister can result in rape. He made the contentious remarks throughout an interview with News 18 after the Union Cabinet gave a nod to growing the minimal marriageable age for girls to 21.
On being quizzed by journalist Amish Devgan about his causes for opposing the brand new proposal, Azmi alleged, “Our culture says that when girls/children grow up or become adults, they should be married immediately. Or wait patiently if you do not find a suitable partner.”
He added, “Once the delay the prolonged, even after such a partner is found, then only the parents of the child will be accused of committing a sin. This is because the responsibility of sinful behaviour of their children (if any) will then lie on their parents.”

On listening to this, Amish Devgan requested, “Don’t you have trust in women?”. The Samajwadi Party chief clarified, “No, there is nothing like this. They are definitely trustworthy. I also have a girl. I am not talking about trust here.”
Azmi went on to make weird claims about rape and urged that staying alone together with your daughter and sister could make you commit such a heinous crime. “If my girl/daughter or sister is alone at home, then, my sacrament tells me to not stay near them. The Satan (Devil) might take over your spirits,” he emphasised.
“We are witnessing several rape cases committed by cousin brothers and fathers… This is a precautionary measure taught by our forefathers,” Azmi claimed. The Samajwadi Party chief concluded, “Interference in the rules of Bhagwan and Allah leads to disbalance in the society.”
It should be talked about that Abu Azmi had earlier urged that ladies would go astray in the event that they weren’t married early. Another Samajwadi Party chief Shafiqur Rahman Barq claimed that it could equip women with excuses to do ‘awargi’ (bask in reckless, immoral behaviour).“
Union Cabinet raises minimal marriageable age of girls, private legal guidelines to be amdended
On December 15, the Union Cabinet accredited a proposal to boost the authorized age of marriage of girls from 18 years to 21 years. During the Independence Day tackle in August 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced the identical and stated the Government was planning to amend the legislation for a similar.
He once more identified the identical in an tackle to the individuals of the nation in October 2020 and stated the federal government would quickly take a call over it. Once the legislation is amended, the authorized marriageable age for each women and men would develop into the identical, i.e. 21 years. Following the announcement of the choice, there was hypothesis that the choice would simply have an effect on Hindus as a result of it was unclear whether or not private legal guidelines could be modified.
It was unclear if any change to Muslim Personal Law could be made to amend the minimal age of marriage for girls, which is presently 15 years. The hypothesis was that the Muslim private legislation would give the neighborhood the fitting to marry their women at 15, and Hindus would observe the legislation, thereby affecting the fertility price and screwing the demography additional.
OpIndia reached out to sources within the know to get readability on the difficulty. Sources have clarified that every one private legal guidelines, together with Sharia and Christian legal guidelines, would even be amended to extend the marital age of girls to 21.