Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed a petition seeking the court's intervention after a high court lawyer was allegedly assaulted in Murshidabad, where he had gone to defend the accused in a murder case.
The petitioner's counsel informed Justice Tirthankar Ghosh that advocate Sabyasachi Chatterjee was "beaten up and mercilessly thrashed" at Jangipur in Murshidabad because he had appeared in a riot-related case as part of the violent protests against the Wakf Amendment Act on April 12. On that day, Haragobindo Das and his son Chandan Das were murdered close to their Samserganj home. Chatterjee had gone to the Jangipur Magistrate's Court to defend the accused in the murder case when he was allegedly assaulted.