{"id":316359,"date":"2019-11-05T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316359"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:49:25","slug":"delhi-cops-protest-over-violent-clash-with-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-cops-protest-over-violent-clash-with-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi cops protest over violent clash with lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316360 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/delhi-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/delhi-protest.jpg 527w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/delhi-protest-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/delhi-protest-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/delhi-protest-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/>The Delhi police on Tuesday launched protests outside the national capital Police headquarters to protest against Saturday\u2019s violent clashes between cops and lawyers and the subsequent attack on policemen outside the Saket district court on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian Police Service (IPS)\u00a0in a tweet extended support to the Delhi police personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIncident involving police &amp; lawyers unfortunate. All should take a balanced view of it based on facts in public domain. Countrywide, police stands in solidarity with those police personnel subjected to physical assault &amp; humiliation. Condemn all attempts to break law, by anyone!,\u201d IPS tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many IPS officers took to Twitter to condemn the attack on policemen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Jammu and Kashmir DGP Shesh Paul Vaid in a tweet said, &#8220;Saddened to see such treatment meted out to Police officers who spend their entire lives protecting civil society and maintaining law &amp; order.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The policemen in uniform were seen wearing black bands to condemn the attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Saturday, a scuffle broke out between police and the lawyers in Delhi\u2019s Tis Hazari Court following a parking dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gunshots were heard and a lawyer was also injured in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Opposition is now using the protest by policemen as an opportunity to attack the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala in a tweet said, \u201cA new low in 72 years &#8211; Police on protest in \u2018National Capital of Delhi\u2019. Is this BJP\u2019s \u2018New India\u2019? Where will BJP take the country? Where is India\u2019s HM, Sh. Amit Shah?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi police on Tuesday launched protests outside the national capital Police headquarters to protest against Saturday\u2019s violent clashes between cops and lawyers and the subsequent attack on policemen outside the Saket district court on Monday. The Indian Police Service (IPS)\u00a0in a tweet extended support to the Delhi police personnel. \u201cIncident involving police &amp; lawyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316359"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316361,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316359\/revisions\/316361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}