High drama was witnessed in Court No 3 on Monday, September 14 when Justices V Gopala Gowda and Adarsh Kumar Goel assembled to hear Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association vs Manohar Lal Sharma and Ors, which came up at 2.15 pm.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave lawyer ML Sharma, who appeared for the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape accused, another two weeks to respond to a petition by an apex court body of female lawyers seeking action against him and another advocate AP Singh for allegedly making derogatory remarks again...

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*Even as an association of female lawyers in the Supreme Court has petitioned the court to ban gang rape lawyers ML Sharma and AP Singh, they might end up getting away with allegedly inciting murder. But why not redraw the boundaries of adversarial litigation while we’re at it, asks Saurav Datta.

PTI reported: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from two advocates, representing the 16 December gangrape convicts, against whom a women lawyers body has sought action for allegedly making derogatory remarks against women in a BBC documentary on the case. “We have heard the argument, plea...

“The Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association took umbrage at the comments of advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh in the documentary India’s Daughter and sought a ban on their entry into the apex court premises” by filing a petition before the court, reported The Times of India and others. The petition ...

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*Lawyer Nandita Saikia argues that the controversial BBC documentary on the Delhi gang rape, India’s Daughter, is flawed though no more than our society itself.

Advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh, who have represented the 2012 Delhi gangrape convicts and recently made controversial and misogynistic comments in a documentary that was banned in India, have been served with three-week show cause notices by the Bar Council of India (BCI), which deliberated on the...

The Delhi bar council will take suo motu action against advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh, who made controversial comments in a documentary about the December 2012 Delhi rapists.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) is likely to meet this evening over the controversial remarks made by two defence advocates in the BBC documentary about the December 2012 gang-rape . “The meeting will take place late evening in Delhi to decide further course of action on the matter,” BCI chairman Man...

Gangrape lawyers ML Sharma, AP Singh might face BCI inquiry (again), promises BCI chairman MK Mishra.

The Delhi bar council complaint against the December 16 rape convicts’ lawyer AP Singh was transferred to the BCI, which on Saturday issued a show-cause notice to Singh, reported the Hindu . Singh had made sexist remarks to the media outside the Saket trial court that had convicted his clients, clai...

Advocate AP Singh, who represented two of the four gang rapists who were sentenced to death last week for the December 2012 murder of a student, said that he was pressured by an “anti-social element” to say that he would burn his daughter alive if he caught her out late at night with a boyfriend or ...

Delhi advocate VK Anand is representing the main accused in the 16 December Delhi gang-rape, after urgings from his son, an IP University Delhi law student. The brother of the main accused is represented by activist lawyer ML Sharma , while advocate AP Singh is representing two other accused. Advoca...