Lawyers protest over yesterday's police lathicharge in Allahabad

Allahabad, Apr 13 (UNI) Lawyers here today indulged in heavy brickbatting and blocked the Allahabad-Kanpur National Highway to protest yesterday's lathicharge by the police on lawyers at collectorate during filing of nominations for the assembly polls.

Reports of clashes between lawyers and police were received from several places in the city and roads were blocked by the protestors.

Lawyers blocked the GT road near the High Court and pelted stones on policemen when they tried to remove them.

Additional police forces have been rushed while contingent of Rapid Action Force(RAF) have been deployed near the court premises to control the situation.

Over three dozen lawyers, policement and mediapersons had received injuries during the clash yesterday.

Meanwhile, District Magistrate, Ashish Kumar Goel has ordered magisterial inquiry in the incident and two police officials -- inspector of Colonelganj, Vijaypal Singh and Circle officer of George town, C P Pandey have been attached with the policeline.

UNI