New Delhi(IANS) : A city court Friday sentenced 19 lawyers to six months of rigorous imprisonment for not abiding by a high court directive to not go on strike. They were granted bail soon after the verdict.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Yadav Friday held the lawyers guilty and sentenced them to a maximum punishment of six months.
In 2005, the Delhi High Court had booked the lawyers under section 144 of the Indian Penal Code (joining unlawful assembly) for holding a massive strike over the inauguration of a new district court at Rohini.
On Feb 11, 2005, the lawyers had walked down from the court to the Civil Lines to protest shifting of some lawyers and courts from the Tis Hazari court complex to the Rohini complex.
The 19 lawyers had been in police custody for six days then and were later released on furnishing a bail bond.