New Delhi: Ram Jethmalani denies that he deliberately maligned Jessica Lall's character and resorted to false statements to defend prime accused Manu Sharma in the murder case.
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Jethmalani fiercely justified his move to defend Manu by targeting Jessica and witness Bina Ramani.
A visibly angry Jethmalani initially refused to answer queries and threatened to walk out of the show as well.
"You can go on talking bullshit and continue the bullshit. I am totally impervious... Repeated bullshit doesn't become wisdom," Jethmalani told Thapar.
While defending his client Manu Sharma in the Jessica Lall case, Jethmalani had earlier questioned Jessica Lall's character that led to her killing at the Tamarind Court.
Thapar asked him about Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy that means are more important than the end and whether he was claiming that in law it was the other way round, to which Jethmalani replied, "I am doing much better than Mahatma Gandhi in this case. I assure you."
On Jessica, the former Union Law Minister said, "In the first place, I have not made any accusations against her character. You can go on repeating it a hundred times if you like. I have cast no aspersions on her character. On the contrary, I have given her some character. I hope she deserves it."
Admitting that he had earlier fought a case for Bina Ramani with regard to the custody of her children, Jethmalani denied that he had charged the key prosecution witness by resorting to falsehood in the Jessica Lall murder case.
"All that I have said is that the poor woman was pressurised by the police to speak some lies to please them and get out of the trouble they were creating for her, and in court she had the conscience to stand up and not stick to those lies," he added.
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