Clash between lawyers, journos: AG proposes judicial probe
FollowAdvocate General (AG) C P Sudhakara Prasad has proposed a judicial inquiry into the incident in which advocates allegedly attacked journalists on the High Court premises on Wednesday. He also suggested that a retired judge should be entrusted with the probe.
The AG blamed the lawyers, journalists and the police for escalating the problems that affected the functioning of the High Court for hours and resulted in a tense situation. High Court administrative committee is holding a meeting on Thursday and a decision on judicial inquiry will be taken at the meeting.
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Meanwhile, a section of advocates is boycotting courts in Kochi on Thursday in protest.
The problems erupted after media reports on the arrest of Government Pleader Dhanesh Mathew Manjooran on charges of molesting a woman. Media had also exposed the attempts of the relatives of the advocate to force the victim to withdraw her statement against the pleader. A group of lawyers maintained that the reports are wrong, and the case a fabricated one. The accused approached High Court to quash the case on Tuesday. Advocates took up the matter, and a few of them allegedly abused the journalists present on the court premises leading to a scuffle.
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On Wednesday, journalists and advocates again had an argument, and this resulted in a clash between the two and police had to resort to caning after the situation became tense and lawyers continued to provoke journos.
