Two days after a clash between the Delhi Police and lawyers at Delhi’s Tis Hazari Courts complex, a group of lawyers allegedly thrashed an on-duty Delhi Police officer and passersby in South Delhi’s Saket Courts complex on Monday.
The lawyers allegedly broke the signboard of the police post on the court complex and blocked the roads for a few hours at Saket and Karkardooma courts leading to traffic snarls.
Also, the lawyers on Monday abstained from judicial work to mark their protest against the Delhi Police.
Several videos of lawyers manhandling police personnel and passersby at Saket and Karkardoma courts were doing the rounds on social media.
In a video, a lawyer is seen slapping a bike-borne policeman. When the cop tried to leave the spot, another lawyer threw his helmet on him. Fortunately it hit the bike.
In another video, a passerby was seen being roughed up by the lawyers. His clothes were torn by protesting lawyers.
“I don’t know why the lawyers beat me. They had even broke my mobile phone and tore my shirt,” the man alleged in the video. A video of a group of lawyers dismantling the police post board and pulling out the wires of CCTV camera attached near the police post went viral.
At Karkardoma court, the lawyers went on rampage. An unidentified man, wearing red T-shirt, on a Royal Enfield bike, was stopped, surrounded, slapped and even beaten up with sticks by some lawyers outside Delhi’s Karkardooma court. The individual was forced to abandon his bike and flee the scene.
“All incidents are being probed and further investigation is under way,” said Atul Kumar Thakur, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South Delhi.
The present case is an extension of the scuffle that is ongoing between the lawyers and the policemen since Saturday. A scuffle broke out between lawyers and Delhi Police personnel over parking in the Tis Hazari Court Complex on Saturday in which 21 vehicles, including Police Control Room (PCR) vans, prison vans and 12 private bikes were set on fire and vandalised by lawyers.