New Delhi, A lawyers’ body on Tuesday announced that its strike against alleged high-handedness of the Delhi Police would continue indefinitely till its demands are met.
The lawyers, in their turn, have demanded the immediate suspension of Assistant Commissioner of Police Manasvi Vashishta, the Shahdara Police Station SHO and other police personnel of the same station. The FIR was registered on October 25 at Laxmi Nagar Police Station on the complaint of Patparganj tehsildar Manoj Kumar Singh, who alleged that some lawyers assaulted him on October 23.
“In continuation of the circular/resolution dated October 26, a meeting was held today through video conferencing to deliberate upon the Shahdara incident and the demands raised by the legal fraternity,” a circular from the Coordination Committee of All District Court Bar Associations read. In a counter development, Delhi Police registered an FIR against a lawyer, his father and a few others for allegedly assaulting a tehsildar inside the SDM office in east Delhi’s Geeta Colony area, police sources said. The committee in the circular requested office bearers of the committee to assemble outside their district courts to inform people about the “police atrocities” at 11 AM Wednesday. “Further, the committee calls upon the learned advocates to assemble at Patiala House Courts on Thursday, 29 October 2026, at 12 PM, for a peaceful protest march against police atrocities towards Police Headquarters, Delhi, to press for the fulfilment of above demands,” it said. The tehsildar told police that he could not file a complaint on the day of the incident as he was frightened.
