Action against rapists' lawyers? Bar council to meet today

March 06, 2015 11:17

The derogatory comments about women made by two lawyers in the documentary 'India's Daughter' - banned in India and telecast by the BBC - have sparked outrage.

Fellow lawyers want their licences revoked and people are demanding, in hundreds of posts on social media, that they be punished.ML Sharma and AK Singh are defence lawyers for the four men on death row for brutally gang-raping and killing a 23-year-old medical student in a moving bus in Delhi in December 2012.

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