The lawyers were protesting against the transfer of Justice S. Muralidhar, the third most senior judge in the court, to the Punjab and Haryana high court.
A parking row between police personnel and lawyers on Saturday had escalated leading to violence and arson at the Tis Hazari Court complex. At least 20 police personnel and several lawyers were injured and many vehicles were damaged in the incident. The lawyers alleged that the police fired at them.Nov 5, 2019
Number of lawyers in India: The data AreaTotal AdvocatesAdvocates enrolled in last 5 yearsDelhi5425815709Orissa446255831Kerala433395656Assam, Nagaland, etc23077707417 more rows•Feb 18, 2013
“The money is enormous,” admits Singhvi; “the best lawyers in the country earn more than the best doctors, architects or other professionals.” According to one guesstimate, there may be around 500 lawyers in India today who earn over Rs one crore annually, and there are a dozen in the capital who earn eight to ten ...
Among the lakhs of jobless lawyers in India, less than 10% are making a living wage. Will legal profession survive another 20 years? The dynamics of the legal market continue to amaze me. India has lakhs of jobless lawyers sitting around exterminating houseflies in district courts around the country.Dec 7, 2018
Senior Delhi Police officers appeal to the cops to end the protest outside the police headquarters. They assured that the attack on the cops is being taken seriously and the demands by the protesters are being looked into.
The Bar Council of India (BCI) Tuesday appealed to protesting advocates to join work and asked them to “think about the issue from legal view point and not become a laughing stock in the aftermath of Tis Hazari violence."
A legal notice has been served by an advocate of Supreme Court to the Commissioner of Delhi Police, Amulya Patnaik for allegedly not taking any action against police personnel and officials who demonstrated at Police Headquarters, ITO here on Tuesday.
The Kerala Chapter of the IPS Association have extended their support to the Delhi police personnel who staged a protest against the recent clash with lawyers at Tis Hazari court premises on Tuesday.
After carrying out a probe for four days, sources in the Delhi Police suspect that false information was spread at the Tis Hazari Court on Saturday that police attacked a lawyer inside the lockup.
The counsel said that the police is misusing their power and that both media and police are trying to spoil the case.
As protests of lawyers in Delhi entered fourth day on Wednesday, Commissioner of Police Amulya Patnaik and Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police Rajesh Khurana, along with senior officials of the Delhi Police arrived at the residence of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal for a meeting.
Puducherry Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Kiran Bedi on Wednesday posted a cryptic post on Twitter, backing Delhi police personnel in the recent clash between lawyers and police in the national capital.
An advocate, Hakam Singh, has sent a legal notice to actor Kangana Ranaut, demanding an apology for a tweet in which “she had falsely identified an old woman at a farmers’ protest as Shaheen Bagh ’s ‘Bilkis Dadi’.
‘Sabka Mangal Ho’ is an advocacy group of lawyers that fights legal battles for farmers apart from fighting against the cases of corruption, group’s chairman, advocate Pradeep Rapria, said. Ahead of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ call, Haryana Police had arrested around 80 farmers mostly by conducting midnight raids. The advocacy group through its wing – the Haryana Progressive Farmers Union — approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court to question and oppose the police move. According to Rapria, the farmers and lawyers from farming background are associated with the union. “The police detained or arrested even those farmers who were not even facing FIRs in connection with the current farmer agitation,” says Rapria.