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‘Beautiful Girl Can Distract A Man’: Congress MLA’s Bizarre ‘Rape Theory’ Sparks Row

Sparking a massive row, Baraiya stated that women belonging to backward communities are not even beautiful, but still get raped because it is written in their scriptures.

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