{"id":316480,"date":"2019-11-06T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316480"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:30:52","slug":"delhi-hc-rejects-application-seeking-permission-to-lodge-fir-against-lawyers-in-saket-court-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-hc-rejects-application-seeking-permission-to-lodge-fir-against-lawyers-in-saket-court-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC rejects application seeking permission to lodge FIR against lawyers in Saket Court incident"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-300426 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DHC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/DHC.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/DHC-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/DHC-642x420.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>In a setback to Delhi Police, Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed application of police seeking permission to lodge FIR against lawyers in Saket District Court incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Refraining from work, lawyers have been protesting for the past three days over clashes which broke out in Tis Hazari court complex last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lawyers have closed the main gates of Patiala House and Saket district courts and did not allow litigants to access the court premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, the Bar Council of India (BCI) on Wednesday said that the protest by Delhi Police yesterday seems to be politically managed and the darkest day in the history of independent India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BCI also said that it will withdraw its strike and resume work from tomorrow but demanded action against cops involved in the scuffle last week while promising action against lawyers found guilty in the clashes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, Delhi police launched protests outside the Police headquarters 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=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The protest was called off after repeated assurances by senior officials that their key demands related to the assault by lawyers will be addressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On November 2, a scuffle broke out between police and the lawyers in Delhi\u2019s Tis Hazari Court following a parking dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a setback to Delhi Police, Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed application of police seeking permission to lodge FIR against lawyers in Saket District Court incident. Refraining from work, lawyers have been protesting for the past three days over clashes which broke out in Tis Hazari court complex last week. Lawyers have closed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316480"}],"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=316480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316481,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316480\/revisions\/316481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}