India's bar council meets to decide action against rape trial lawyers
Source: The Guardian
India's bar council meets to decide action against rape trial lawyers
Maseeh Rahman in Delhi
Friday 6 March 2015 16.33 GMT
Indias bar council has been meeting to decide what action to take against two lawyers who made derogatory and hate-filled statements about women in the BBC documentary Indias Daughters.
A womens organisation has also lodged a police complaint demanding prosecution of the lawyers, who represent four men who are on death row after being convicted of the fatal gang-rape of a student in Delhi in 2012.
Indias Daughters a film about the gang-rape has been banned in India, and police are separately pursuing an investigation against British filmmaker Leslee Udwin, who has left the country, and her Indian crew.
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The misogynist statements by ML Sharma and AK Singh, the two defence lawyers, were broadcast on the NDTV channel before the film was banned.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/06/india-bar-council-action-rape-trial-laywyers