A day after a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras died after being gang-raped and tortured, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju on Wednesday courted controversy with his insensitive social media post on the incident.
While condemning the gruesome incident in Hathras and demanding harsh punishment for the culprits, the former judge also said that ‘sex is a natural urge in men’. Moreover, he linked the rising number of rape cases to the rising unemployment rate in India.
“I condemn the Hathras gang rape, and call for harsh punishment of the culprits. However, having said that there is one aspect which also needs to be considered. Sex is a natural urge in men. It is sometimes said that after food, the next requirement is sex,” he wrote on Facebook.
The 19-year-old woman was raped in a village in Hathras by four men on September 14. After her condition deteriorated, she…