Women should know how much skin they should cover: Karnataka minister - The Times of India

Karnataka's women and child welfare minister C C Patil assumed tones of a moral policeman on Sunday saying, "I personally don't favour women wearing provocative clothes and always feel they need to be dignified in whatever they wear." He also said women should know how much skin they should cover.

Patil was speaking to TOI on Andhra Pradesh director general of police Dinesh Reddy attributing the rise in rape cases to women dressing provocatively by wearing "flimsy and fashionable" dresses. Patil said incidents like rape and sexual harassment occur when moral values among men decline - the subtext being women dressing "provocatively" cause men's morals to nosedive.