Crime has no colour or religion: Congress

Congress has clarified that neither colour of dress nor religion has anything to do with crime. This was said in order to distance the party from the controversy generated by a comment of Digvijaya Singh, wherein he had said that people wearing saffron were involved in rapes.

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday said that a criminal cannot be identified with the color of his dress or the religion that he may be following.

The statement, aimed to clarify Congress' stand on the controversy that got generated after senior party leader Digvijaya Singh reportedly said that "some people wearing saffron robes are involved in rape", was made by the Congress national spokesperson Pranav Jha here at the party headquarters.

"Criminal is a criminal. His dress or religion has nothing to do with it," he said.

Singh made the controversial statement at a ‘Sant Samagam’ was organized by Madhya Pradesh government's spiritual department in Bhopal recently.