Indian female politician says rape victims may have invited attacks

An Indian female politician and activist has said rape victims may have invited attacks by their clothes and behaviour.

Asha Mirje, a Nationalist Congress Party leader in Maharashtra state, questioned at a meeting why a 23-year-old physiotherapy student who was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi in 2012 was out late at night.

The student died of her injuries and thousands of people took to the streets against the prevalence of rape and sexual assault.