Must be their fault.

Two Australian cricketers "who are in India for the ICC Women's World Cup had stepped out of their hotel and were walking towards a cafe when the offender approached them and touched one of them inappropriately. Police have claimed that the molester was caught soon," and "Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya said the players should have informed the security or local administration before leaving the hotel." DH. Blaming the victim is a standard response in India, so that the perpetrators mostly go unpunished. After a female student was gang-raped in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, "They should avoid venturing out late at night." "Three weeks ago, three girls were raped on the beach in Odisha." "Such incidents have taken place in Manipur, UP, Bihar, Odisha." ET. It is commonplace because women are asking for it. In March 2023, a court in Uttar Pradesh acquitted three men, and convicted one man of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, in a case in which a 19-year old Dalit girl was gang raped and murdered in Hathras in September 2020. India Today. In an ongoing case in which Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister for Home Ajay 'Teni' Mishra, is accused of the murder of four farmers and one journalist by deliberately driving his SUV over them, nearly 40% of witnesses have turned hostile. HT. This is common in India. Police take years in investigating the crime, the accused are released on bail and eyewitnesses turn hostile. Whether they have been 'persuaded' is not known. "India's growth story is falling apart, according to a startup CEO who says the problem isn't money. It's mindset, corruption, and a system built to stall progress." BT. Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi exposed "illegal tree-felling and poaching, misuse of public money and large-scale embezzlement in fake plantation schemes" in Haryana around 23 years ago. Evidently, political bigwigs were involved." Reaction was furious and vicious. There has been no conclusion to the charges because, "Two Supreme Court and four high court justices and eight members of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) have recused themselves, without citing a reason, from his cases in the last 12 years." DH. If High Court and Supreme Court judges can be coerced, why should ordinary witnesses risk their lives? Last week, "Francesca Orsini, a London-based scholar of Hindi and South Asian literature, was denied entry at the Delhi airport...despite holding an Indian visa valid for another five years." The Print. No reason was given. Her offence could only be something she has said or written that the brotherhood did not like. In February 2021, "Princess Latifa, daughter of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, has for the first time described how she was captured by Indian special forces three years ago on a boat off the coast of India and how despite kicking and screaming that she was seeking political asylum she was tranquilised (italics to highlight assault) and carried onto a private jet." TOI. Blofeld would be proud. It must be their fault. Even when tranquilized.