Lawyers start police station fire (Video)

"Regretfully, far from being the upholders of the rule of law, the lawyers seem to have behaved as hooligans and miscreants. The incidents that transpired over a last month or so make it clear that the lawyers seemed to be under the impression that, because they are officers of the Court, they are immune from the process of law and that they could get away with any unlawful act without being answerable to the law enforcing agency."

—from Justice B.N. Srikrishna's
Interim Report on the Incidents that Occurred on
19th February 2009 at the Madras High Court

Police action against lawyers
(Photo gallery)

"There is no doubt that the violence was started by the unruly mob of lawyers, some of whom were even dressed in robes and bands, but once the police got into action, there was no stopping them. It was as if the police force, as a body, went berserk. The lathi charge continued irrespective of whether a lawyer was a miscreant or otherwise."

—from Justice B.N. Srikrishna's
Interim Report on the Incidents that Occurred on
19th February 2009 at the Madras High Court

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