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The police on Wednesday attacked courtrooms and lawyers in Agra, injuring the district and sessions judge and three other judicial officers.
Over 100 policemen were also injured in the attack in retaliation to the alleged beating up of two cops by agitating lawyers demanding setting up of a bench of the Allahabad high court in Agra.
While District Judge V S Vajpeyi, whose two fingers got fractured in the attack, expressed inability to speak to the press about the incident, the district and police authorities refused to make any statement on it.
One of the lawyers, K D Sharma, said several hundred policemen converged at the entrance of the civil court complex and barged into the Bar Association hall where a meeting of the lawyers was in progress.
They beat up the lawyers chasing them into the courtrooms, breaking furniture and damaging vehicles in the process.
Additional Sessions Judge C M Dixit, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Allah Rakha Khan and Additional Civil Judge Subhash Chand received lathi blows from the police. When Vajpeyi came out of his room, he too was assaulted, sources said.
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