The derogatory comments about women made by two lawyers in the documentary 'India's Daughter' - banned in India and telecast by the BBC last night - 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.
The mother of the student today asked, "Why can't the government take action against lawyers who talk about my daughter like that?"
Senior Supreme Court advocate KTS Tulsi demanded that their licences be suspended. "Shows complete absence of any concern for society. There can't be any justification. A person with this kind of mindset is still a lawyer. It is much more than a crime. The bar council must take cognisance," he said.
But Manan Kumar Mishra, Bar Council of India chairman said he would need a complaint against the lawyers to take action. "As an individual I feel the comments against women appear to be unwarranted and uncalled for."
The lawyer said if the bar council sends him a notice, he will respond to it. "I have committed no crime," he said.
Lawyer AK Singh, whose comments about women provoked outrage too, said people who opposed him were "biased". He said he received calls from many people who told him that they supported his views.
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