A show-cause notice has been issued to ML Sharma and AP Singh, who are defence lawyers for the four men on death row for brutally gangraping and killing a 23-year-old student in a moving bus in Delhi.
"We have issued the show-cause notice to ML Sharma and AP Singh for their alleged remarks made in the (BBC) documentary," BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said.
Meanwhile, advocate Sharma refuted the charge, saying he has said nothing wrong to anybody.
Defence counsel ML Sharma and AP Singh have made made several controversial statements in the documentary.
The notices have been issued under a provision of the advocates act and their licences to practice may be cancelled if BCI is not satisfied with their response.
In the controversial BBC documentary on the gangrape, Sharma reportedly said such incidents of rape are bound to happen if girls go out without proper security.
Meanwhile, Editors Guild of India on Friday appealed to the government to revoke the ban on the telecast of the BBC documentary, depicting the aftermath of the brutal gangrape and murder of Nirbhaya, saying the move was "wholly unwarranted".
The Guild said in a statement in New Delhi that the documentary, 'Storyville: India's daughter', portrayed the courage, sensibility and liberal outlook of a family traumatised by the brutality inflicted on their daughter, the continuing shameful attitudes towards women among the convict as well as the educated, including lawyers.
The documentary is about the gangrape of a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist, who was brutally assaulted on December 16, 2012 on a moving bus in Delhi. Severely injured by the brutal assault, the woman was shifted for specialised treatment to a Singapore hospital where she died on December 29, 2012.
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