{"id":37026,"date":"2015-03-07T00:09:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=37026"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T18:39:22","slug":"bar-council-to-meet-to-discuss-anti-woman-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bar-council-to-meet-to-discuss-anti-woman-remarks","title":{"rendered":"Bar Council to meet to discuss &#8216;anti-woman remarks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37027\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bar-council-to-meet-to-discuss-anti-woman-remarks\/m_l_-sharma\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma.jpg?fit=620%2C376&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,376\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"M_L_-Sharma\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma.jpg?fit=150%2C91&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma.jpg?fit=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-37027\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma-300x182.jpg?resize=300%2C182&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"M_L_-Sharma\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma.jpg?resize=150%2C91&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/M_L_-Sharma.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Bar Council of India (BCI) will hold a meeting of its executive committee today evening to discuss the &#8220;anti-woman remarks&#8221; made by certain lawyers, including a defence counsel of the December 16 gang-rape convict.&#8221;Considering the seriousness of the matter we have decided to hold the meeting of our executive committee to discuss the remarks of lawyers,&#8221; Manan Kumar Mishra, the Chirman of the apex lawyers&#8217; body said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the BCI has got the power to take suo motu cognizance of such remarks made by its members. The BCI chief said he had considered various statements of some senior members of the bar that such remarks should be taken note by the lawyer&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>One of the defence lawyers in the December 16 gang-rape case, advocate M L Sharma has reportedly given a statement reflecting gender bias. In the controversial BBC documentary on the gang rape, Sharma reportedly said such incidents of rape are bound to happen if girls go out without proper security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bar Council of India (BCI) will hold a meeting of its executive committee today evening to discuss the &#8220;anti-woman remarks&#8221; made by certain lawyers, including a defence counsel of the December 16 gang-rape convict.&#8221;Considering the seriousness of the matter we have decided to hold the meeting of our executive committee to discuss the remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[31680],"class_list":["post-37026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bar-bench-firm-news","tag-anti-woman-remarks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bar Council to meet to discuss &#039;anti-woman remarks&#039; 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