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Lawyers assault media persons, students in Bangalore
Friday March 02, 2012 07:18:22 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: A group of
lawyers here Friday attacked media persons, stoned their vehicles,
police and college students in an ugly display of anger over media
coverage of their January protest that had gridlocked traffic for
hours in the city's central business district.
The lawyers pounced on large number of reporters, including women,
TV camera crew and photographers gathered at the crowded civil
court premises in the heart of the city to cover court appearance
of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana
Reddy in an illegal mining case.
At least two cameramen of two Kannada channels suffered bleeding
head injuries in the assault while Deputy Commissioner of Police
G. Ramesh was hit on the head by stone thrown by lawyers.
Eyewitnesses said that lawyers even threw down chairs, glass
tumblers, and flower pots from the upper floors of the
multi-storied court complex, about a km from Vidhana Soudha, the
state secretariat housing the offices of the chief minister,
ministers and the two houses of the legislature.
A few OB vans and vehicles parked in the usually crowded complex
were also damaged in the stone throwing.
Going berserk, the lawyers stoned students of a government college
nearby as well.
Police cane-charged and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the
lawyers.
The trouble started when a few advocates objected to TV crew and
photographers trying to capture Reddy coming out of the vehicle to
proceed to the court.
With media persons asserting their right to carry out their work,
lawyers pounced on them. They also turned their ire on police
personnel who intervened.
Protesting against the lawyers attack on them, media persons later
staged a sit-in at the court premises demanding immediate arrest
of the culprits.
Bangalore Police Commissioner B.G. Jyothiprakash Mirji arrived at
the spot to pacify them.
Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Home Minister R. Ashoka, and
retired Supreme Court judge and former Lokayukta (ombudsman) N.
Santosh Hegde condemned the lawyers' behaviour.
Gowda and Ashoka promised that "strict action" will be taken
against the guilty and "none will be spared".
Gowda held a meeting with Ashoka, senior civil and police
officials and representatives of media organizations to decide on
way to prevent attacks on media people.
Friday's assault was apparently in protest against media coverage
of lawyers' agitation in Bangalore in January which had brought
traffic in most parts of the central business district to virtual
standstill for seven hours. The lawyers had blocked one of the
main avenues, Kempegowda Road, in the city centre protesting
police assault on their colleague.
The January agitation of lawyers had come in for severe criticism
from the people as well as Governor H.R. Bhardwaj, a former union
law minister, as hundreds of people had to walk for miles to reach
their destination. Those travelling long distance and ambulances
taking patients to hospitals were among the worst hit by that
agitation.
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