Chief minister Yogi Adityanath ordered a probe into the Hapur incident wherein police allegedly lathi-charged advocates on Tuesday even as lawyers abstained from work and held a statewide protest on Wednesday.
Lawyers throughout the state will proceed their strike on Friday in protest towards the Hapur incident, killing of a lawyer in Ghaziabad and a legal pointing a gun at an advocate in a Farrukhabad court docket, lawyers’ associations stated. (Courts throughout U.P. will stay closed on Thursday on account of Raksha Bandhan).
The lawyers’ demand incliude motion towards police personnel in 48 hours in reference to the Hapur incident, FIR towards police personnel accountable for alleged cane-charge on Hapur lawyers and compensation to the injured lawyers and free therapy .
In Lucknow, lawyers of the district court docket led the agitation. They blocked the outdated excessive court docket crossing and the street in entrance of the divisional commissioner’s workplace.
One other group of lawyers allegedly pressured the closure of retailers under the KD Singh Babu Stadium Metro station. The protestors allegedly manhandled an assistant commissioner of police and a station home officer.
Because the protest continued for round six hours, site visitors jams had been witnessed on all roads within the district court docket’s neighborhood. Site visitors motion on the busy Parivartan Chowk was thrown out of substances.
Boycotting work, members of the Oudh Bar Affiliation of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket staged a protest at gate quantity six of the excessive court docket. Oudh Bar Affiliation president Anand Mani Tripathi led the agitation.
Joint commissioner of police (regulation and order) Upendra Agarwal stated no FIR was lodged in reference to the protest until late within the night.
Lucknow Bar Affiliation normal secretary Kuldeep Narain Mishra acknowledged that additional plan of action on the problem might be selected September 1 if the federal government fails to take motion towards police personnel accountable for the lathi-charge on lawyers in Hapur.
A lawyers’ delegation in Lucknow additionally handed over a memorandum to the district Justice of the Peace addressed to the chief minister, demanding motion towards Hapur police personnel.
Adhikar Manch normal secretary Junaid Ahmad has condemned the lathi-charge on lawyers in Hapur and its president Ranjit Rawat has demanded a high-level probe into the incident.
LAWYERS ABSTAIN FROM WORK IN PRAYAGRAJ
On a name given by the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh, lawyers of the Allahabad excessive court docket, district court docket, Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and different courts of Prayagraj abstained from judicial work on Wednesday.
Lawyers additionally burnt the effigy of the police on the gate quantity three of the excessive court docket.
Later, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket Bar Affiliation (HCBA) handed a decision, demanding stern motion towards policemen accountable for the lathi-charge on lawyers in Hapur.
Bar Council of U.P. chairman Shivkishore Gaur has demanded an FIR towards police personnel within the Hapur incident and compensation to injured lawyers.
STIR IN 22 DISTRICTS OF WESTERN U.P.
Lawyers in 22 districts in Western Uttar Pradesh boycotted work on Wednesday over the Hapur incident.
In Meerut, a whole bunch of lawyers led by district bar affiliation president Kanwar Pal Sharma and secretary Vinod Choudhary staged a protest on the workplace of the IG (Meerut vary).
The affiliation’s former secretary Sachin Choudhary demanded motion towards police personnel who had been concerned within the lathicharge on lawyers in Hapur.
A gaggle of lawyers in Meerut additionally protested on the district Justice of the Peace’s workplace and allegedly manhandled gunner (safety personnel) of a joint Justice of the Peace.
Lawyers in Hapur, Bulandshahr, Shamli, Bijnor, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and different districts of western U.P. additionally staged protests and submitted a memorandum, demanding motion towards policemen.
MEERUT DIV COMMISSIONER TO HEAD PROBE
The state authorities has constituted a three-member committee below the chairmanship of the Meerut divisional commissioner to probe the Hapur incident wherein lawyers clashed with police personnel, stated particular director normal, Legislation and Order, Prashant Kumar.
Kumar added that the inspector normal (IG) of police and deputy IG of Meerut are members of the committee.
THE INCIDENT
Police cane-charged lawyers in Hapur on Tuesday after they had been protesting towards registration of an FIR towards a lady lawyer of the district.
A case was registered towards lawyer Priyanka Tyagi in Hapur after a bike with two policemen collided together with her automobile.
Lawyers had been demanding quashing of the FIR, however police cane-charged them, lawyers stated, including that 30 advocates had been injured within the lathi-charge. Police officers, nevertheless, refuted the allegation and acknowledged that delicate pressure was utilized when lawyers began beating up a passer-by through the protest.
In line with Hapur police, at the least eight police personnel had been additionally injured within the incident.
On Wednesday, police registered an FIR towards 17 lawyers and over 250 unidentified folks at Metropolis police station in Hapur over Tuesday’s protest by some advocates at Tehsil Crossing.
Further SP (Hapur) Mukesh Mishra stated the FIR has been registered for creating ruckus, inflicting site visitors jam and violating prohibitory orders, based on a PTI report.
BAR COUNCIL MEETING
The Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh has convened a gathering on the problem on September 3. The Lucknow Bar Affiliation of the Lucknow district court docket has convened a separate assembly on September 4.
SCBA CONDEMNS HAPUR INCIDENT
The Supreme Court docket Bar Affiliation (SCBA) on Wednesday additionally condemned the police lathi-charge on advocates in Hapur and demanded motion towards responsible personnel.
“The Supreme Court docket Bar Affiliation strongly condemns the inhumane and violent act of police on advocates in Hapur the place the ladies advocates had been additionally not spared from the brutality,” stated a decision handed by the SCBA.
“The lathi-charge on the advocates, who had been protesting peacefully towards the alleged high-handedness of the police, is a transparent violation of their rights and the rule of regulation,” the decision added.
The SCBA stands in solidarity with the advocates of Hapur and pledges to do every little thing in its energy to make sure that justice is served, stated Rohit Pandey, SCBA secretary.