Protest over attack on advocate

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Demanding to submit challan and medical examination of minors to verify age, scores of lawyers gathered at SP North office in connection with a case in which a lawyer was assaulted by three youths on Sunday near Nanke petrol pump under TT Nagar police station area.

Police said that the victim advocate Ashok Vishwakarma was hit in his head with a hard object by the three accused including two minors. Suraj was sent to jail while one of the minors was sent to juvenile home and after the verification of the documents the other minor would be produced in the juvenile justice court.

SP (South) Rahul Kumar lodha said that the lawyers were demanding that one of the accused who was minor and produced in the Juvenile Justice Court should undergo medical examination for confirmation of his minor age.

“Their other demand was to submit challan at the earliest and we are investigating the case and the further investigations have been started,” he added

In the incident three persons including two minor boys attacked the victim in his head but the victim braved and nabbed one of the accused while the other two were nabbed later in the investigation.

The Investigating officer Sunil Bhadoria said that the documents of one of the minors have been checked and verified and found true .

The documents of other minor have been obtained and would be produced in the court on Tuesday. A case under section 294, 327, 323, 341, 327 and 34 of the IPC was registered after the preliminary investigation.

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