A Gujarat advocate has filed a public interest litigation (PIL), alleging that another lawyer was assaulted by a group of advocates trying to enforce Monday’s Bar Council of India’s (BCI) strike to protest against police-lawyer violence. Advocate Aiml Panchal’s PIL stated that fellow advocate Jal Un...

Exclusive: The Delhi bar council held an emergency meeting yesterday, ruling on allegations by its youngest member Rajesh Mishra’ that he was assaulted by a pistol-armed group of lawyers, including elected Delhi bar council member […], following an altercation ostensibly over recognition of a local bar association.

The bench has called an extraordinary meeting to deal with lawyers’ growing violence against judges, after a group of lawyers allegedly assaulted a District Court judge on Wednesday. Delhi lawyers Vikas Gupta and Rekha Sharma allegedly slapped Additional District Judge Pankaj Gupta on Wednesday. Gup...