12 legal professionals arrested over vandalism in district court docket in Odisha’s Sambalpur
3 min readBy Express News Service
SAMBALPUR: Twelve legal professionals of the Sambalpur District Bar Association have been arrested within the wee hours of Tuesday for his or her alleged involvement within the vandalism on the premises of the district court docket.
The incident befell on Monday contained in the chamber of a district decide when agitators, who had come to help the Satyagraha known as by the Odisha Lawyers Association towards the alleged anti-lawyer stand of the Bar Council of India (BCI) and State Bar Council, barged into the court docket after jostling with the police.
Sambalpur Police stated these booked within the case had additionally resorted to vandalism which was discovered through the verification of CCTV footage.
Three instances have been registered at Sambalpur Town police station in reference to the incident towards legal professionals apart from the citizen teams and organisations concerned within the incident. Nine of the arrested legal professionals forwarded to the court docket have been later remanded to judicial custody after their bail pleas have been rejected.
IIC of Town police station Prakash Karna stated, “We are examining the CCTV footage of the court premises to identify others involved in the incident. Further details can be revealed only after the rest are arrested.”
Meanwhile, the district police has imposed prohibitory orders underneath Section 144 of CrPC inside a 200-metre radius of the Kacheri Chhak, the place the legal professionals had staged a protest, to keep away from any additional untoward incident within the space.
On Monday, the Bar Council of India suspended the ‘license of practice’ of 29 agitating legal professionals for a interval of 18 months apart from suspending all members of the Sambalpur district bar affiliation until additional orders, in view of the incident.
SAMBALPUR: Twelve legal professionals of the Sambalpur District Bar Association have been arrested within the wee hours of Tuesday for his or her alleged involvement within the vandalism on the premises of the district court docket.
The incident befell on Monday contained in the chamber of a district decide when agitators, who had come to help the Satyagraha known as by the Odisha Lawyers Association towards the alleged anti-lawyer stand of the Bar Council of India (BCI) and State Bar Council, barged into the court docket after jostling with the police.
Sambalpur Police stated these booked within the case had additionally resorted to vandalism which was discovered through the verification of CCTV footage.
Three instances have been registered at Sambalpur Town police station in reference to the incident towards legal professionals apart from the citizen teams and organisations concerned within the incident. Nine of the arrested legal professionals forwarded to the court docket have been later remanded to judicial custody after their bail pleas have been rejected.
IIC of Town police station Prakash Karna stated, “We are examining the CCTV footage of the court premises to identify others involved in the incident. Further details can be revealed only after the rest are arrested.”
Meanwhile, the district police has imposed prohibitory orders underneath Section 144 of CrPC inside a 200-metre radius of the Kacheri Chhak, the place the legal professionals had staged a protest, to keep away from any additional untoward incident within the space.
On Monday, the Bar Council of India suspended the ‘license of practice’ of 29 agitating legal professionals for a interval of 18 months apart from suspending all members of the Sambalpur district bar affiliation until additional orders, in view of the incident.
