DHAKA: A lawyer for two men sentenced to death for the fatal gang-rape of an Indian student could lose his licence for remarks that ‘reek of misogyny’.

A regulatory body said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.

AP Singh, the counsel for Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma, has angered the Bar Council of Delhi with his outbursts after death sentences were passed on Friday on four men for the assault on the 23-year-old woman in New Delhi last year.

Singh told a section of the local media that he would have ‘burned my daughter alive’ if she was having ‘premarital sex and moving around at night with her boyfriend’.

He was apparently referring to the victim, who died of grievous internal injuries after being lured on to the private bus by a gang of six following a cinema trip with her male companion on December 16.

BDST: 1608 HRS, SEPT 15, 2013
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