Advocates Protesting Assault On Colleague Manhandle TI In Indore; VISUALS Surface | FP Photo
Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A large number of advocates staged a protest at the high court intersection on Saturday, blocking the road for about two hours to protest an FIR filed against an advocate and his two sons following a dispute in the Pardeshipura area.
The lawyers claimed that five police personnel had assaulted high court lawyer Arvind Jain and his sons Apoorv and Arpit Jain during the dispute. The protest turned aggressive when Tukoganj police station in-charge Jitendra Singh Yadav was alleg-edly manhandled by the protesters.
Accusing him of being intoxicated, they chased him away from the protest site, forcing him to flee for safety. To control the situation, police deployed force from five stations and diverted traffic going to the high court intersection. The protesters also allegedly attacked several people trying to cross the blockade.
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FIR against advocates
After this incident, TI Yadav also registered a case against unidentified protestors, stating that after knowing about the chakka jam, he had reached the spot.
He was requesting the advocates to let the traffic resume and cooperate with the police when he was allegedly manhandled by un-identified protestors.
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A case under the relevant sections, including section 132 of BNS (assault or criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging their duty) was lodged against unidentified protestors.
As tensions escalated, the advocates sat on the road and chanted Hanuman Chalisa, further intensifying their demonstration. They demanded that an FIR be registered against the accused police men.
Additional district magistrate Roshan Rai also tried to pacify the protesters but failed to convince them. The conflict began on Holi, when Raju Gaur (50) was on his way to a temple on his scooter.
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On the way, two children playing Holi re-portedly threw colour on him. Gaur confronted them, which led to an argument with Arvind Jain. The situation turned ugly when Jain’s sons Apoorv and Arpit allegedly assaulted Gaur.
Police personnel present on the spot intervened and re-portedly used sticks on the advocate, which sparked anger among the legal frater-nity and led to the protest on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, the advocates had staged a demon-stration at Pardeshipura police station for an hour be-fore reaching the high court intersection at around 3 PM. To control the situation, additional DCP (zone-2) Amarendra Singh assured the protestors that the five policemen would be sus-pended following an inquiry.
Following this announce-ment, the advocates called off their protest, but warned that they would resume their agi-tation on Monday if further action was not taken. They also stated that they would approach CM Mohan Yadav over the issue.
Additional CP (Law and Order) Amit Singh confirmed that five policemen named SI Deepak Jadon, Shobharam Jat, constables Devendra Singh, Anoop Tiwari and Bhupendra Bhadoriya posted at Pardeshipura police station were attached to DCP Zone-2 office and further investigations were on. Meanwhile, the protestors demanded a medical exam-ination of TI Jitendra Singh Yadav, alleging that he was
