India’s Daughters row: Delhi gangrape lawyers asked to explain remarks on women

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, March 24, 2015: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from two lawyers accused of making derogatory remarks on women in the controversial BBC documentary ’India’s Daughter’ on the 2012 Delhi gangrape.

The two lawyers - ML Sharma and AK Singh - represent the four men currently on death row for the gangrape and killing of the 23-year-old medical intern in a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012.

Sharma had defended his clients, saying "There is no place for women in Indian culture" in the documentary made by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin. Both the lawyers had made similar remarks that had shocked the nation.

The Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association had filed a petition asking for a ban on the lawyers from entering the apex court as well as their apology. "The comments made by these lawyers are biased, scandalous, inhumane and unjustifiable and these comments have caused sense of fear and insecurity among the women lawyers in the Supreme Court," the petition had said.

Courtesy: Indiatoday