'Tainted' lawyer appears before police, gets bail

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 Vikram Singh Chauhan, the lawyer who led the mob which allegedly attacked journalists, students and faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) at Patiala House court last week, was summoned on Wednesday by the Delhi Police and he turned up at the police station to cooperate with the probe. later, he was out on bail.

He was one of the three lawyers who were summoned by police to cooperate in the investigation. He was caught on camera brutally thrashing those who assembled at the court. Also, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was assaulted. Chauhan was arrested under Section 147 (Punishment for rioting), Section 149 (unlawful assembly), Section 343(wrongful confinement) and Section 341(wrongful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

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