A Delhi court has restrained the media from broadcasting or publishing the interview of Mukesh Singh, one of the convicts of the Nirbhaya gang-rape case.
The Delhi Police had earlier stated that it would move court for a restraining order against Singh's interview.
"Assertions have been made about the late victim of a ghastly crime which transgress the domain law: Indian Penal Code Section 504, Section 505 (1)(b) and Section 509, as well as Section 66(a) IT Act. Accordingly we have registered a case and we are going to investigate and we are also going to move the court to issue a restraint order about the publication and broadcast of such illegal inputs," Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi told the media.
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has also issued an advisory to all television channels to not broadcast the documentary on Nirbhaya.
As per reports, the government has also sought an explanation from Tihar jail authorities over how the convict was interviewed in the custody.
While speaking to BBC Four from his cell in an interview that appears in 'India's Daughter', a BBC Storyville documentary, Mukesh Singh said that a girl is 'far more responsible for rape' than a boy.
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He said housework and housekeeping was the domain of girls and they had no rights to roam or visit discos and bars at night.
"They are doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes," he said, and added that only '20 percent' of the girls were good.
Singh added that executing him and the other convicts in the case will further endanger rape victims as now, when girls are raped, they will not leave the victim but will kill her.
He showed no remorse for the attack, which he referred to as an 'accident'.