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Published 10:48 IST, January 24th 2020

Simi Garewal backs Kangana on Nirbhaya rapists, but calls Indira Jaising 'a fine woman'

Veteran actress and talk show host Simi Garewal has come out in support of Kangana Ranaut's comment stating that Nirbhaya's rapists should be publicly hanged

Reported by: Radhika Sarkar
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Veteran actress and talk show host Simi Garewal has come out in support of Kangana Ranaut's comment stating that Nirbhaya's rapists should be publicly hanged to warn others from committing heinous crimes. However, in another tweet, she went on to call Senior Advocate Indira Jaising a ' fine woman' and a 'brilliant lawyer'. 

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Simi backs Kangana over the public hanging of Nirbhaya rapists but calls Indira Jaising a 'fine woman'

This comes after Kangana Ranaut hit out at the senior lawyer who claimed that the Delhi gang-rape victim's mother to pardon the rapists just like Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi forgave her husband's killers.

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Lashing out at the senior lawyer, Kangana Ranaut had said, Jaising should be kept in jail with Nirbhaya's rapists for 4 days. She concluded by saying that it is because of women like her who support rapists, that victims fail to get justice. Further commenting on the convicts of Nirbhaya, Kangana said, "Firstly they shouldn't be called minors because if he can reproduce and rape someone then he is not a minor. These men should be hanged till death at crossroads to set an example."

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Updated 10:48 IST, January 24th 2020

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