Ghaziabad: Lawyers Misbehave With Judge, Vandalise Police Booth At District Court
Chaos erupted inside the Ghaziabad courtroom after the lawyers reportedly misbehaved with the district judge and got into a heated exchange with him over his orders.
Ghaziabad: Police personnel on Tuesday had to resort to lathi charge after a group of lawyers allegedly misbehaved with a district judge in Ghaziabad district court complex in Raj Nagar. The protesting lawyers also allegedly set ablaze the police booth inside the court premises.
Chaos erupted inside the Ghaziabad courtroom after the lawyers reportedly misbehaved with the district judge and got into a heated exchange with him over his orders.
It was not immediately clear what led to the altercation at the Sessions Court, but videos doing rounds on social media showed a large number of police personnel and lawyers clashing inside the courtroom. The videos showed lawyers and baton-wielding police personnel coming to blows in a courtroom in Ghaziabad, the PTI reported.
Reportedly, some of the lawyers claimed they suffered injuries as police personnel used batons on them, and police officials alleged that agitating advocates set a local police outpost on fire.
The ruckus broke out around 11 AM in morning in the court complex following a heated altercation between an advocate and the judge over the hearing of matter related to anticipatory bail.
Soon, vedios of the alleged incident flooded social media. One of the clip showed police personnel brandishing batons, while one even wielded a wooden chair, gesturing as if to strike the lawyers.
According to Ghaziabad Police Commissioner Ajay Kumar Mishra the group of advocates tried to exert pressure on the district judge during the hearing of a bail application and attempted to assault him, the PTI reported.
On condition of anonymity, a lawyer told PTI that a group of advocates had demanded that District and Sessions Judge Anil Kumar should hear the case of anticipatory bail on priority, which he denied and stated that the case would be entertained as per the listing. However, the group of advocates raised slogans against the district judge and soon the matter took an ugly turn when court proceedings were interrupted and the judge had to call the police in. Following the blow up, the police reached the courtroom and charged lathis due to which over a dozen lawyers suffered injuries, he claimed.
Reportedly, the former district bar president Nahar Singh Yadav has sent a complaint of the incident to the Allahabad High Court chief justice alleging that advocates Jitendra Singh and Abhishek Yadav, who reached the court to oppose the anticipatory bail plea, had urged the district judge to hear the arguments on priority or transfer the case as the courtroom was crowded.
Yadav claimed that the district judge lost his temper and started abusing the lawyers. He further added that the judge then called the police force, and personnel headed by DCP (City zone) Rajesh Kumar Singh and ACP (Kavinagar) Abhishek Srivastava came in and resorted to baton charge which left over a dozen advocates injured.
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