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December 16 gang-rape: Bar Council to discuss lawyers' remarks
New Delhi, March 6
The Bar Council of India
(BCI) is likely to meet Friday evening over the remarks made by two
defence advocates in the BBC documentary on the December 16, 2012
gang-rape.
"The meeting will take place late evening in Delhi to
decide further course of action on the matter," BCI chairman Manan
Mishra said.
Defence counsel M. L. Sharma and A.P.Singh have made made several controversial statements in the documentary.
The BCI had issued notice to A.P. Singh over his remark on the rape victim in September 2013, which is still pending.
The
documentary is about the gang rape of a 23-year-old trainee
physiotherapist, who was brutally assaulted on December 16, 2012 on a
moving bus in Delhi. Severely injured by the brutal assault, the woman
was shifted for specialised treatment to a Singapore hospital where she
died on December 29, 2012.