Tuesday, May 10, 2011
UK files reveal virginity tests on Indian women in 1970s
LONDON: Indian women were subjected to "virginity tests" in the 1970s before being allowed entry into the United Kingdom, a directive strenuously denied by Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1979 to then Indian prime minister Morarji Desai. These and other details have emerged from declassified British home ministry files. The tests, to check whether Indian women claiming to be brides or fiances of British subjects were indeed so, took place at the United Kingdom's missions in Delhi and
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