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Evicted lawyer moves Supreme Court

Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI: A vacation Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on a petition from apex court lawyer Anoop George Chaudhari, alleging that he was thrown out of his house in Noida by the landlady.

The Bench comprising Justice P. Venkatarama Reddi and Justice Arijit Pasayat after hearing senior counsel, Shanthi Bhushan ordered the notice returnable in two weeks. It said the police officer, Noida should register the First Information Report (FIR), if it had not already been done and investigation should proceed under the supervision of a senior police official. Any request by the petitioner for police protection should be considered expeditiously and a decision taken on merit by the Senior Superintendent of Police, the Bench said.

The petitioner alleged that it was a serious dereliction of duty by the Noida police in not registering his FIR and not taking any action on the report of a `heinous crime of forcible dispossession' of the petitioner and his family from their house. He alleged that the unwillingness of the Noida police to take action indicated the `political influence' under which they were acting. He sought a CBI probe into the incident and stern action against the culprits.

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