Tripura lawyers threaten agitation

Demand immediate action against police for detaining senior advocate

PTI | July 7, 2010



Tripura Lawyers today threatened to launch a statewide movement from Friday if the state government did not take action against 'erring' police officials who allegedly detained a senior advocate on the charge of molesting a woman.

A six-member delegation of the lawyers, including the representatives of the Tripura Bar Association and Agartala bench of Guwahati High Court Bar Association, yesterday met Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and requested him to take action against the police officials.

The spokesman of the lawyer?s delegation, Pijush Biswas, told reporters here today that senior lawyer Pradyot Kumar Dhar was arrested last Thursday and put in a lock-up at the West Kotowali police station for one night on the basis of a complaint by a woman that he molested her when she met him in his chamber.

Tripura Bar Association president Rakhal Debnath said that the detention was motivated because the case was bailable. ?Section 50 of the CrPC was applied against the lawyer which is a bailable warrant, but despite being 30 years in legal profession Dhar was not given bail which is unfortunate,? he said.
 

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