By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Lucknow: Lawyers associated with the Faizabad Bar Association suddenly went berserk and started hooliganism when advocate Jamal Ahmad, who has filed an application in Faizabad District Court to plead in the case of bombings at some district courts in U.P., turned up in the court.
In the first week of June, advocate Jamal Ahmad had filed an application in the district court to plead in the case of bombings inside the court premises in Faizabad, Lucknow and Varanasi on 23rd November, 2007, by alleged Muslim ‘terrorists’ Hakim Tariq Qasimi, Maulana Khalid Mujahid, Sajjadur Rahman, Mohammad Akhtar and others. This case will be heard in the court of Faizabad’s additional district and session judge on 26th June 2008.
Following the condemnation from the Bar Council of the boycott of the case by Bar Associations in its recent meeting in Allahabad, about one dozen Hindu and Muslim lawyers from Allahabad, Lucknow, Faizabad and Barabanki had sought permission from the court to take up the case.
But defying all these developments, about one hundred lawyers of Faizabad District Court led by the general secretary of Faizabad Bar Association and the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Mansoor Ilahi, attacked advocate Jamal Ahmad and ransacked his office. A group of miscreants also warned him that he should dissociate himself with this case or be prepared to face direct action by the lawyers.
The vandalism has been reported to Faizabad police superintendent, implicating advocates Mansoor Ilahi and Pandey, though Jamal Ahmad could neither identify the culprits nor give their addresses. Police have been deployed in the court premises after the incident. Meanwhile, advocate Jamal Ahmad has demanded immediate action against the culprits.