Lucknow, Jan 30: Lawyers in Kanpur smeared the face of a builder, accused of stocking old currency notes to the tune of over Rs 96 crore, with black ink when he were produced in the court on Monday, police said.
The general secretary of the Bar Association tried to pacify the irate lawyers but they refused to retreat and also thrashed the builder’s accomplices after smearing his face with black ink calling him a “traitor”.
Police had requested policy custody remand of the 10 persons accused of amassing old currency notes. When they were brought to the court of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and were awaiting the verdict of the court, some lawyers went near the accused and smeared the face of builder And Khatri black. When the other accused tried to react, the lawyers thrashed them. It was only after the intervention of Bar Association general secretary Bhanu Pratap Singh that the lawyers were pacified and the police whisked away the accused and who was later taken to jail. (IANS)