A lawyer for the men on trial over the fatal gang-rape last year of an Indian student branded her male colleague unreliable on Tuesday and called his testimony “a bundle of lies.”
A court in India’s capital is hearing closing arguments in the trial of four men for the attack on the student last December, a case that sparked angry protests over violence against women.
A defence lawyer for two of the men said there were inconsistencies in the statements made to police by the 23-year-old woman, who died two weeks after the attack on a moving bus.
Lawyer AP Singh also targeted the woman’s male friend, who was severely beaten during the attack, accusing him of being an “unreliable witness” and calling his account of the incident “nothing but a bundle of lies.”
“He [the friend] does not remember what happened before they boarded the bus and what happened after they were allegedly dumped out of the bus,” Singh told the court. “But he clearly remembers what happened during the time they were on the bus,” he said.
