Bar News Team :
The Bar Council of India has taken serious notice of the recent incident in which the Uttar Pradesh Police allegedly assaulted an advocate after dragging him out of his house in Etah.
Condemning the police action, the apex bar body has requested Chief Justice of India and Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court to direct the state government to take immediate steps to find out the guilty police personnel.
The BCI in a release, issued by its Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said the UP police had “crossed all limits of atrocities” and that it was worse than the crime committed by any hardened criminal.
“The UP police has crossed all limits of atrocities and similar incidents were witnessed in West Bengal, Bihar and from other parts of the country. Such action of the police is rather worse than the crime committed by any hardened criminal,” the BCI said.
It said, “The act of police of Uttar Pradesh is shocking, it cannot be expected from the protectors of Law and Order.”
“The brutality clearly shows that the police personnel of Etah were acting with some planning with some ulterior motive.
“The Council, thus, resolves to request Chief Justice of India and Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court to take immediate steps to find out the guilty police personnel and issue a direction to UP government to immediately put them under suspension, transfer them and remove them from service,” it said.
A video clip, purportedly of the incident, showing police personnel breaking open the door of a house, dragging a man in advocate’s dress out and assaulting him mercilessly, has gone viral.
