Bar Council of India requests Centre to ‘frame effective law’ for protecting advocates

This comes after Friday’s incident when a suspended lawyer chased a woman and allegedly fired multiple times at her in a court in Saket, before fleeing on his two-wheeler.

The accused, Kameshwar Kumar Singh, 49, was later arrested from his brother’s home in Faridabad by a Delhi Police Crime Branch team. The woman, M Radha, 42, sustained injuries after two bullets grazed her abdomen and right arm. A lawyer’s clerk, Ajay Singh Chauhan, also received bullet injuries on his right arm.

A video of the incident showed Singh training his pistol at Radha on the stairs leading up to the lawyers’ block and shooting several rounds at her, even as she screams and starts running towards the other side.

According to the police, the motive appeared to be personal enmity—the accused had filed a case last year alleging the woman had cheated him of Rs 25 lakh. The hearing in the case was on Friday.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Vinod Sharma, President, Saket Bar Association, said, “Security is always tightened on court premises and guards at the gate are equipped with hand-held and door-frame metal detectors… Bar association members have held meetings with senior officers for enhanced security and more force will be deployed in the coming weeks.”