India, Aug. 16 -- Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, in an Independence Day letter to law students, expressed regret and apologised for any hurt caused by the recent controversy, asserting that the concerns of students deserve to be heard with patience, sensitivity and respect.

"The developments of the last few days have caused concern and anguish among a section of the student community. Whenever students feel hurt or aggrieved, their concerns deserve to be heard with patience, sensitivity and respect. If anything connected with the present controversy, any of my words, or letter, has hurt the feelings of our law students, I sincerely regret and apologise for the same," Mishra said in the letter released on Saturday...