Ask questions regarding the incident: Court to defence lawyers

A special fast track court today disallowed the counsel for the accused in the December 16 gangrape case from raising questions about the intimate relationship between the victim and her male friend who was with her at the time of the incident.
The court termed such questions as "scandalous" and asked the counsel to limit their queries to those that relate to the incident.
"This question (regarding intimate relations of victim and her friend) is disallowed as it is not relevant. You can't harass the witness like this. Question is disallowed being scandalous," Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Yogesh Khanna said.

The line of questioning adopted by defence counsels V K Anand and Vivek Sharma, was objected to by Special Public Prosecutor Dayan Krishnan.
Anand was appearing for accused Mukesh, while Vivek Sharma was for Pawan Gupta.
Pawan, Mukesh and four others, including a juvenile had allegedly gangraped the 23-year-old victim and assaulted her male friend, in a moving bus, on the night of December 16, 2012. The girl died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.