Shabana Azmi says outrage over cases of crimes against women should not be selective and society needs to work to end the patriarchal mindset of people, especially since sexual assault cases have not decreased since the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.

The actor attended a round table conference titled Creating a Safer World for Children, in association with United Nations Children’s Fund. Asked to comment on the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata as well as the alleged sexual assault of two four-year-old girls at a school in Badlapur in Maharashtra, she said, “There has to be an outrage and not just today, the outrage should have taken place way back. And it should not be selective. All the incidents are extremely dangerous. If we continue looking selectively, we won’t be able to go to the root [cause] of the issue. It is all very shameful.”