{"id":313262,"date":"2019-06-12T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313262"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:35:53","slug":"first-female-president-of-up-bar-council-shot-dead-in-court-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/first-female-president-of-up-bar-council-shot-dead-in-court-premises\/","title":{"rendered":"First female President of UP Bar Council shot dead in court premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313263 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/darvesh-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/darvesh-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/darvesh-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/darvesh-696x429.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/darvesh-682x420.jpg 682w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/darvesh.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Uttar Pradesh Bar Council president Darvesh Yadav was allegedly shot dead by a fellow-advocate on Wednesday in the court premises, two days after she was elected to the position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, she was shot by lawyer Manish Sharma inside the Agra district court premises. Later, the assailant shot himself and has been admitted in the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Darvesh, the first woman President of UP Bar Council, had come for a visit to the Civil Court when she was attacked around 2.30 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Manish Sharma allegedly shot Darvesh three times from his license pistol while she was attending her welcome ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital and is in a critical condition, said sources.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh Bar Council president Darvesh Yadav was allegedly shot dead by a fellow-advocate on Wednesday in the court premises, two days after she was elected to the position. According to the sources, she was shot by lawyer Manish Sharma inside the Agra district court premises. Later, the assailant shot himself and has been admitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":313263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[11487,11486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313264,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313262\/revisions\/313264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}