Thursday, June 20, 2013   

Women trash Mumbai bar over ‘rapist’ cocktail
(01-03 18:36)

A group of women in India angered by a bar in Mumbai which put a cocktail named ‘rapist’, or Balatkari, on its drinks menu, has attacked the barman, media reports said.
They also trashed the bar called Bonobo and tore up menus. The women, who are part of the Nationalist Congress Party, are demanding police arrest the bar's owners who have reportedly been publicising the new drink, the Guardian reports.


   
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