Agra lawyers boycott work, protest against 2001 lathicharge
By: admin | Sept. 29, 2022, 8:08 p.m.
Lawyers in the city abstained from work on Monday in protest against the ‘brutal’ lathicharge that took place on the civil court premises 21 years ago. They took out a protest march on the court campus and handed over a memorandum to district magistrate Navneet Chahal seeking action against the guilty.
“Lawyers of Agra had been demanding a high court bench here for decades for which a peaceful agitation was organized on the civil court premises on September 26, 2001. However, the Agra administration and police authorities ordered a lathi-charge on lawyers on that black day,” observed Lokendra Sharma, secretary of the Collectorate Bar Association of Agra after handing over the memorandum to DM.
