The Ghaziabad police took suo motu cognisance of a bit of attorneys allegedly burning an effigy of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath throughout a protest on the district courts advanced on Tuesday and an FIR was registered on the Kavi Nagar police station.
The attorneys have been protesting in opposition to the clashes between the police and attorneys in Hapur over the past week of the month of August. Each side allege assault in opposition to one another in the course of the conflict.
Based on police, the FIR was filed beneath Indian Penal Code sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 153a (selling enmity between completely different teams) and 500 (defamation) at Kavi Nagar police station.
Based on officers, the FIR names 4 individuals and 5 to 6 others as unidentified. The FIR states that in the course of the protest, a bit of attorneys with political intent allegedly burnt the UP chief minister in effigy.
“They’re additionally making viral the video of the incident and this will likely result in resentment amongst public,” the police stated in the FIR.
“We now have lodged an FIR beneath acceptable IPC sections into the incident and are investigating the matter,” stated Nipun Agarwal, deputy commissioner of police (metropolis).
HT accessed a letter, purportedly a present trigger discover issued to 1 of the attorneys on Wednesday, which has requested him/her to furnish an evidence. The letter states that there was no name for burning the effigy/image of the chief minister however the stated lawyer together with a number of others allegedly went forward and did so.
The Ghaziabad bar affiliation additionally issued a letter on Wednesday purportedly mentioning the stated incident and broadly sharing the movies. The letter states that the bar affiliation has nothing to do with the effigy burning and solely the attorneys who indulged in such acts had been accountable.
When contacted, Ghaziabad bar affiliation current Rakesh Tyagi (Kaili) declined touch upon the matter.