Indian political party distributes knives to women

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A far-right political party in India is distributing thousands of knives to women in Mumbai to help them protect themselves after a fatal gang rape last month alarmed the country.

Shiv Sena, a party with a reputation for intimidation and unrest, began handing out the weapons to women at a function on Wednesday on the birthday of the group's late founder Bal Thackeray, who died in November.

"The way you cut vegetables, cut the hand of the person who touches you the same way," local party official Ajay Chowdhary told supporters, saying women should keep the seven-centimetre blades in their purses.

The party intends to distribute 21,000 of the knives across Maharashtra state, their main base, of which Mumbai is the capital.

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UK Laws
Knives: the laws on buying and carrying

Not what you're looking for? ***8595;
There are laws about buying and carrying a knife depending on the type of knife, your age and your circumstances.

Basic laws on knives
It is illegal to:
? sell a knife of any kind (including cutlery and kitchen knives) to anyone under 18

? carry a knife in public without good reason - unless it?s a knife with a folding blade 3 inches long (7.62 cm) or less, eg a Swiss Army knife

? carry, buy or sell any type of banned knife (the list of banned knives is below)

? use any knife in a threatening way (even a legal knife, such as a Swiss Army knife)

Lock knives (knives with blades that can be locked when unfolded) are not folding knives, and are illegal to carry in public.

The maximum penalty for an adult carrying a knife is 4 years in prison and a fine of ?5,000.

Knives that are illegal
There is a complete ban on the sale of some knives:

? flick knives (also called ?switchblades? or ?automatic knives?) - where the blade is hidden inside the handle and shoots out when a button is pressed

? butterfly knives - where the blade is hidden inside a handle that splits in two around it, like wings; the handles swing around the blade to open or close it

? disguised knives ? eg where the blade is hidden inside a belt buckle or fake mobile phone

? gravity knives

? sword-sticks

? samurai swords (with some exceptions, including antiques and swords made to traditional methods)

? hand or foot-claws

? push daggers

? hollow kubotan (cylinder-shaped keychain) holding spikes

? shuriken (also known as ?death stars? or ?throwing stars?)

? kusari-gama (sickle attached to a rope, cord or wire)

? kyoketsu-shoge (hook-knife attached to a rope, cord or wire)

? kusari (weight attached to a rope, cord or wire)

This is not a complete list of banned knives. Contact your local police to check if a knife is illegal or not.

[Shady]

stories about india and you post UK laws..

i fail to see the correlation..

[Cod3waX]

Men get raped too ya know what do we get?

[xant14]

Men get raped too ya know what do we get?

A smile on our faces

[gopher7]

an uzi 9mm.??

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Originally Posted by shady
stories about india and you post UK laws..

i fail to see the correlation..






Unless you want to find out the hard way messing around with Indian girls in India?.

[nara]

Unless you want to find out the hard way messing around with Indian girls in India***8230;.

Well, there's nothing like a sensible answer.

(...and that was nothing like a sensible answer)

[Johnner]

Christ on a bicycle !!

SJ, you been watching one too many Steven Segal and Batman movies.Never heard of half of 'em !!!

[BlueBox]

i personelly think india need to cut down on the movies where they show women in sexy outfits or hardly wearing anything this is my views

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Originally Posted by BlueBox
i personelly think india need to cut down on the movies where they show women in sexy outfits or hardly wearing anything this is my views


In 1960 how many girls were rapped wearing mini skirt??



Originally Posted by shady
stories about india and you post UK laws..

i fail to see the correlation..




I never thought we were only suppose to post UK news on a world best forum!!!

[Shady]

Originally Posted by BlueBox
i personelly think india need to cut down on the movies where they show women in sexy outfits or hardly wearing anything this is my views


In 1960 how many girls were rapped wearing mini skirt??



Originally Posted by shady
stories about india and you post UK laws..

i fail to see the correlation..




I never thought we were only suppose to post UK news on a world best forum!!!

someone else take this one.. my head hurts

[gc1966]

sj,stop being a meathead wannabe

In 1960 how many girls were rapped wearing mini skirt??

see if you can find any sixties daily paper raping stories that you can cut and paste
for our perusal

[nara]

someone else take this one.. my head hurts

Include me out.

[super jumbe]

If you are old enough to take paracetamol then do it now!!!