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SA to provide legal representation to judge accused of rape
Durban, Jan 21: South African government will provide legal representation to a high court judge, who is in custody in Mumbai on the charge of raping a fellow woman delegate attending an anti-globalisation meet there.
Durban, Jan 21: South African government will
provide legal representation to a high court judge, who is in
custody in Mumbai on the charge of raping a fellow woman
delegate attending an anti-globalisation meet there.
The South African High Commission in New Delhi has been
asked to appoint two Indian lawyers for judge Siraj Desai and
the 26-year-old woman who accused him of raping her, foreign
affairs department spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said.
"We will have to wait for the law to take its course. We
cannot be seen to be intervening with their (India's) judicial
system, just as much we would not want anybody to intervene
with our judicial system," Mamoepa said.
Fifty three-year-old Desai, a judge in Cape Town High
Court was arrested on Sunday after the woman filed a complaint
with police charging him with raping her.
Meanwhile, people in South Africa have questioned the
credibility of the charge, doubting the actions of the
woman's husband in releasing the information to the media only
minutes after his wife informed him about it, reports said.
Newspapers in Johannesburg expressed concern about South
Africa's image abroad.
"We shudder to think how people in the eastern part of
the world regard the morality of South African men," the
citizen newspaper said.
Most papers have also carried editorials, expressing
alarm at the immoral aspect of the incident.
Bureau Report