Delhi gang rape movie: Bar Council issues show cause notice to lawyers

March 07, 2015 09:19

The Bar Council of India has issued notices to two defence lawyers for their remarks in a documentary India's Daughter - depicting the brutal gang rape and murder of a paramedic student in Delhi in 2012 -- that have sparked massive outrage and condemnation. In its notice, the council has given the lawyers -- ML Sharma and AK Singh -- three weeks' time to explain why disciplinary action should not be initiated against them for their remarks.

The lawyers' comments triggered a massive outpouring of criticism and demands of punishment for the duo on social media with fellow lawyers even calling for a revocation of their licences.

Image: Advocate ML Sharma, one of the defence lawyers in the December 16 gang rape case.

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