Delhi: Cop On A Bike Thrashed By Lawyers Outside Saket Court (WATCH VIDEO)

Lawyers and police clashed at the Tis Hazari Court complex here on Saturday during which at least 20 police personnel and several lawyers were injured while many vehicles vandalised or set on fire, according to officials.

Screenshot from the video uploaded by Twitter user @rishibagree

New Delhi: Two days after lawyers and police engaged in a violent clash at the Tis Hazari Court complex, an on-duty policeman was seen assaulted by advocates purportedly outside Saket Court on Monday. A video that’s gone viral on social media showed lawyers stopping a policeman travelling on a motorbike and slapping him and elbowing him on the back. When the policeman was trying to escape the thrashing on his bike, a lawyer who hit him the most also hurled a helmet at him. "A policeman was beaten by lawyers at Saket Court. A video of the incident has also surfaced," a senior police official said. Lawyers and police clashed at the Tis Hazari Court complex here on Saturday during which at least 20 police personnel and several lawyers were injured while many vehicles vandalised or set on fire, according to officials.

Lawyers at Saket district court in Delhi thrashed an on-duty policeman. Indian Lawyers who are suppose to fight for truth, are turning into goons and thugs pic.twitter.com/I4H3bltzEq

— Rishi Bagree ऋषि ???????? (@rishibagree) November 4, 2019

What led to the clash at Tis Hazari? Reports say the scuffle between the advocates and the policemen erupted after a lawyer parked his vehicle outside a lock-up used to keep criminals at the Tiz Hazari court. Lawyers claimed that their colleague who had an important hearing in the court had to face rude behavior from the police constables who asked him not to park the vehicle there. As things hit heated up between the lawyer and the constables, the former was taken to the police lock-up which other advocates objected to and damaged police vehicles present at the spot. "How can you put an advocate in lock-up. We are lawyers not criminals," an agitated advocate said. Eyewitnesses say that seeing the situation going out of control, police decided to fire in the air to disperse the agitating advocates but a bullet hit the advocate who was kept in the lock-up, turning the situation ugly. "How can we believe that the bullet was not aimed at him? If the policeman had fired in the air then how the advocate inside look-up got into its way?" a bar council member questioned as he narrated the sequence of events that followed led to the violent face-off. In view of the strike by lawyers in the Tis Hazari court, security is being enhanced in other courts in Delhi also. (With additional information from PTI & IANS)