Despite rape case, Mumbai ‘safest city’ for women: Shiv Sena

An editorial in ‘Saamana’ said the recent incidents of crime against women in Maharashtra were a “blot” on the State’s culture and the feeling of anger among people was justified.

The Shiv Sena on Monday said the brutal rape and murder of a woman in Mumbai has shocked everyone, but Mumbai is the “safest city” in the world for women and there should be no doubt about it in anyone’s mind. An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said the recent incidents of crime against women in Maharashtra were a “blot” on the State’s culture and the feeling of anger among people was justified. A 34-year-old woman was raped and brutalised with a rod by a man inside a stationary tempo in suburban Sakinaka in the wee hours of Friday. She died at a hospital during treatment in the early hours of Saturday, police earlier said.