Mika-Sawant episode case study for NCW: Girija

Chandigarh, Jun 21 (UNI) The National Commission for Women (NCW) is examining the Mika-Rakhi Sawant case in general to look into the various aspects of the issue rather than dealing it merely as a specific case, NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said today.

''We are not just looking at it as a singular case but examining the issue in its entirety,'' Ms Vyas said while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a workshop on 'Problems relating to NRI Marriages' organised here by the NCW and the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.

To a question, she did not agree to a suggestion that the entire episode was used as a ''publicity stunt'' by the so-called 'Item Girl' Rakhi Sawant.

Ms Vyas also dismissed suggestions that by kissing the male pop singer first, the actress had provided him enough provocation for going ahead for a smooch.

She said what Mika did to Rakhi Sawant was neither permissible by convention nor law.

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