Victims in Delhi rape case are to blame, defendants' lawyer says

NEW DELHI: -- The lawyer representing three of the men charged with the gang rape and murder of a medical student aboard a moving bus in New Delhi has blamed the victims for the assault, saying he has never heard of a "respected lady" being raped in India.

Manohar Lal Sharma said his clients will plead not guilty to all charges tomorrow when they make their next court appearance. His comments come as Indians have reacted with outrage to the opinions of politicians and a religious preacher who have accused westernized women of inviting sexual assaults.

Sharma said the male companion of the murdered 23-year-old was "wholly responsible" for the incident as the unmarried couple should not have been on the streets at night.

"Until today I have not seen a single incident or example of rape with a respected lady," Sharma said in an interview at a cafe outside the Supreme Court in India's capital. "Even an underworld don would not like to touch a girl with respect." [more...]

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-- THE AGE 2013-01-10

OMG

totster

Bloody disgraceful.

The world is in deep shit if this gets accepted by Indian courts.

Shocking, truly shocking...

Words fail me.

Let that happen to his daughter & let's see what tune he will be singing. What an idiot.

So.... By the exact same logic if I track down this lawyer and choke the life out of him, I'll get away with it because he's to blame for making me feel homicidal towards him?

So.... By the exact same logic if I track down this lawyer and choke the life out of him, I'll get away with it because he's to blame for making me feel homicidal towards him?

It's worth the risk. I'll give you a hand.

I agree with all the above posts.

Hard to believe in this day and age that these excuses are being trotted out for such a heinous crime.

How would the alleged perpetrators feel if this was their daughter or sister?

And is there any wonder why India is the dregs of society of a modern world.

Hard to believe in this day and age that these excuses are being trotted out for such a heinous crime.

How would the alleged perpetrators feel if this was their daughter or sister?

Probably much the same as the thousands of people in India who are protesting the government about this... Horrified and angry!

It's just an eye opener to India and many other countries in the region.

They may look like they are living in 2013 with fast cars, technology etc, but the mindset is still lagging behind a couple of hundred years.

I suppose it is all right to murder her if the sex disappointed them, after all she was not a "respected lady". Since they are obviously not respected men and certainly not a respected lawyer it would be quite all right to murder them. Good for the goose good fro the gander.

Anyone who has been to India with a wife or girlfriend knows the disrespect for women is standard practice.

F'd up all over, not just India, Middle East, So. America. Even in the gold standard legal system of the USA, defense lawers attempt to disgrace and discredit the victims. Reruns of Law and Order must be on satellite everywhere..

And we thought Thailand was bad-----and I have personal experience of another depraved act perpetrated by these Indian sickos-my young friends from Europe were married in India and took a taxi to their Honeymoon destination out of Delhi -the Taxi driver was taking some sort of drug and speeding and ignoring their protests until finally they did crash into a lorry-unfortunately the Driver was unscathed but my two friends in the backseat were thrown out onto the roadway and both had horrific injuries,while they were lying on the road bleeding the driver stole their cellphones -gold marriage necklace handbag and cash-later a poice jeep arrived and they threw the woman into the jeep and took her to hospital-on the way in some Indian degenerate escorted the stretcher into the hospital saying he was a friend and tried to rape the woman as she was incapacitated with a broken neck after the Docs had left the room,then the Docs practically had a fistfight over which one would get paid......filth like these men and the filth of that country make Thailand look like Heaven on earth..

My god Gopis

Inflammatory post deleted. Please exercise care in your posts.

Come on people, there are nutters in all countries. Often instigated because of brainwashing by attitudes taught to them because of religion. Don't blame all Indians. You seem to be denigrating over 1.22 billion people because of the remarks of one lawyer.. A LAWYER!!

Haven't you seen the news.??? Huge crowds protesting their disgust in relation to the way women are treated, wanting change, because of the rape and murder? With equal numbers of men and women amongst the protesters. Have you ever seen crowds like that in your country protesting over a rape and murder??

In Australia there was an attitude amongst some empty headed young racists who thought it was ok to go out and bash and murder curry munchers because they were Indians? Many Indian students were murdered and bashed. The Australian government was upset because Indian students were then going to other countries to study.Your attitude is exactly the attitude that leads to such irrational hatred of a race of people that allows some people believe it is ok to do. It is easy when you say something often enough to believe a whole race of people are subhuman. Then it is easy to do what ever you like to them.

Or haven't you heard of the Holocaust where a supposedly advanced civilization murdered 6 million Jews along with Gipsy's, homosexuals, mentally ill, disabled, men, women and children etc etc that they didn't like. Not just murdered but slowly tortured, starved, worked to death and experimented on. Nothing was too brutal. This was all organized and instigated by the government and supported by many of the population and of course carried out by many so called normal people and all this happened not long before I was born. Not hundreds or thousands of years ago but just over 60 years ago. Where were the protests over the many years while this was all going on, not only from the so called civilized country and countries this was being perpetrated in, but of the world?

Yes, it is a terrible statement by the one Lawyer that is defending the accused. He should in my opinion be put on trial himself and deregistered . Did you not hear the bar in India would not represent the accused? They also were disgusted with what happened.

"New Delhi: There was high drama inside the Saket court on Monday as the five accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case were produced. Members of the Bar association created a chaos after two lawyers offered to represent the accused, two of whom have reportedly expressed desire to turn approver. The members of the Saket Bar Association had earlier decided not to defend the accused."

Get things is perspective. Look at the Arab winter. I won't even mention how many men women and children have been murdered there. Hello, hello, I can't hear you.. Did you say something?

I have spent a lot of time in India, over the last 35 years, I can guarantee you the vast majority of the people there are the nicest friendliest people in the world. Yes, there are terrible things happening there, women having acid thrown over them or boiling oil or water, children killed because they are female. Don't blame India. Most educated and not so educated Indians are repulsed by this. Blame human beings the world over. Don't keep blaming all Thai's when something bad happens here. Don't forget, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

And closer to home not so long ago, Pol Pot, not much noise made around the world when that was going on either, and people knew it was happening. Just not politically right for the people in power in the western world at the time. Political convenience.......

OH MY GOD!!! This guy obviously still lives in the stone age. I'm almost hoping he gets gang raped. I'd love to know what he would have to say about his respectability afterwards. What a cretin!!!

i was to busy chuckling at his accent to get incensed over its content

Come on people, there are nutters in all countries. Often instigated because of brainwashing by attitudes taught to them because of religion. Don't blame all Indians. You seem to be denigrating over 1.22 billion people because of the remarks of one lawyer.. A LAWYER!!

Haven't you seen the news.??? Huge crowds protesting their disgust in relation to the way women are treated, wanting change, because of the rape and murder? With equal numbers of men and women amongst the protesters. Have you ever seen crowds like that in your country protesting over a rape and murder??

In Australia there was an attitude amongst some empty headed young racists who thought it was ok to go out and bash and murder curry munchers because they were Indians? Many Indian students were murdered and bashed. The Australian government was upset because Indian students were then going to other countries to study.Your attitude is exactly the attitude that leads to such irrational hatred of a race of people that allows some people believe it is ok to do. It is easy when you say something often enough to believe a whole race of people are subhuman. Then it is easy to do what ever you like to them.

Or haven't you heard of the Holocaust where a supposedly advanced civilization murdered 6 million Jews along with Gipsy's, homosexuals, mentally ill, disabled, men, women and children etc etc that they didn't like. Not just murdered but slowly tortured, starved, worked to death and experimented on. Nothing was too brutal. This was all organized and instigated by the government and supported by many of the population and of course carried out by many so called normal people and all this happened not long before I was born. Not hundreds or thousands of years ago but just over 60 years ago. Where were the protests over the many years while this was all going on, not only from the so called civilized country and countries this was being perpetrated in, but of the world?

Yes, it is a terrible statement by the one Lawyer that is defending the accused. He should in my opinion be put on trial himself and deregistered . Did you not hear the bar in India would not represent the accused? They also were disgusted with what happened.

"New Delhi: There was high drama inside the Saket court on Monday as the five accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case were produced. Members of the Bar association created a chaos after two lawyers offered to represent the accused, two of whom have reportedly expressed desire to turn approver. The members of the Saket Bar Association had earlier decided not to defend the accused."

Get things is perspective. Look at the Arab winter. I won't even mention how many men women and children have been murdered there. Hello, hello, I can't hear you.. Did you say something?

I have spent a lot of time in India, over the last 35 years, I can guarantee you the vast majority of the people there are the nicest friendliest people in the world. Yes, there are terrible things happening there, women having acid thrown over them or boiling oil or water, children killed because they are female. Don't blame India. Most educated and not so educated Indians are repulsed by this. Blame human beings the world over. Don't keep blaming all Thai's when something bad happens here. Don't forget, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

<deleted> are you wittering on about..? Talk about nutters !

totster

This lawyer certainly appears to have the right mindset to represent the accused murderers/rapists, an excellent match.

Bloody disgraceful.

The world is in deep shit if this gets accepted by Indian courts.

This blame-the-victim defence line is typical in muslim countries....and usually accepted by the court

No it's not. India is not a muslim country. I have worked in several muslim countries and your comment would not be applicable in any of them. Muslim countries are different in the same way that Christian countries are. Pakistan and Afghanistan are not representative of the muslim world.

This lawyer is a "shyster" - milking his five minutes of fame for as much publicity as he can get. Given the inflamed passions of many Indians on this it could back-fire on him. I wouldn't walk down any dark alleys If I were him!

Edited January 10, 201313 yr by Baerboxer

Let that happen to his daughter & let's see what tune he will be singing. What an idiot.

no trying to score points ... but half the time it's a family member who sets the sister up for being raped for dishonouring the family...or is that just a muslim thing....? I really love religion and what it brings to the world.

Bloody disgraceful.

The world is in deep shit if this gets accepted by Indian courts.

This blame-the-victim defence line is typical in muslim countries....and usually accepted by the court

India does not have Sharia law practiced in the courts, 80.5% Hindu & has fought three wars with with it's neighbouring Muslim country, Pakistan

Edited January 10, 201313 yr by simple1

Unbelievable, at least three of the attackers have Hindu surnames names (Singh), the lawyer assisting is Hindu and this topic has turned to a Muslim bashing session. FYI last year their were more than 600 rapes in Delhi, with only one conviction. This is what is causing the outrage, aside from the viciousness of the attack, plus the fact that passersby did not stop to assist the victims.

Apparently, as posted above, many in Indian society do not respect females, . It's not a solely Muslim related issue as 80+% are Hindus

Edited January 10, 201313 yr by simple1

I don't know if India has laws against hate speech but the words of this lawyer can actually be classifed as hate speech !

Shocking !

Up until recently, I had thought that India was ahead of most Middle Eastern countries, regarding women's rights. I guess I had thought wrongly.