The executive committee of the Bar Council of India (BCI) was meeting late on Friday to scrutinise the derogatory remarks about women allegedly made by two defence lawyers for the accused in the controversial BBC documentary India’s Daughter on the Nirbhaya rape incident.
“We received communications from senior members of the legal community seeking action against the two lawyers…,” BCI chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra said on Friday.
He said the meeting would either resolve to refer the case to the Bar Council of Delhi for a preliminary enquiry and disciplinary action, if required, or it might issue notice to the lawyers.
Senior lawyers have expressed outrage over the comments made by Manohar Lal Sharma and A.K. Singh, defence lawyers for the four persons on death row for the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old student here in December 2012.
