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A disturbing trend

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE June 9. This is not the first time that advocates in the City have behaved in such manner unbecoming of themselves. A few months ago, some of them used foul language against media persons covering a meeting at the Advocates Association. Their grouse was that the media had given a misleading version of an event and thereby tarnished the image of the Judiciary. Two presspersons covering the meeting were assaulted and others abused.

A few years ago, a senior police officer, Somashekar, was assaulted by a few men in black robes when he came to the Family Court in connection with a divorce case.

Today's incident shocked the people who were heard saying that if advocates did not conduct themselves decorously, how could they expect others to do so. The flash protest by the advocates threw court work in disarray for almost two hours. On their part, police showed restraint.

Presspersons covering the protest had a tough time as they were subjected to verbal abuse, threatening stares and intimidation by some advocates. Unfortunately, innocent onlookers were at the receiving end of the fracas as they were unwittingly caught in the melee.

Denied

Our Special Correspondent writes:

The Advocates Association has denied that advocates clashed with police.

About the attacks on newspaper and television cameramen, the President of the Association, K.N.Subba Reddy, and the General Secretary, H.M.Mariyappa, expressed they would regret if some of the advocates were responsible for any "unsavoury incident'' involving journalists. The loss of the camera of a newspaper photographer was "accidental'' and they would regret it. It was not the result of a deliberate action.

About the incident at the Family Court, they said that a client (petitioner in a divorce case) abused the advocate appearing for the opposite party and assaulted him.

Mr. Subba Reddy and Mr. Mariyappa said that they reached the Court complex and appealed for calm and were able to restore order.

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