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CJ has some ‘modest’ advice for women

BANGALORE: Urging women to dress “modestly” for the “safety and security of the people,” Cyriac Joseph, Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka, on Friday said: “Nowadays, women wear such kind of dresses even in temples and churches that when we go to places of worship, instead of meditating on God, we end up meditating on the person before us.”

Mr. Cyriac Joseph said that the “provocative dresses that women wear in buses” put the “men travelling in the buses” in awkward situations and hence “women must dress modestly.”

Coming back to why attacks on women happen, he linked it to their clothes. He advised the media to play a “constructive role” by highlighting this reason.

The Chief Justice was delivering this speech at the launch of the journal “Supreme Court on Section 13 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955” and the release of the “Judicial Empire”, a monthly newspaper.

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