New Delhi: Lawyers and police clashed at Tis Hazari Court complex here on Saturday afternoon during which at least 10 police personnel and several lawyers were injured while 17 vehicles vandalised, according to officials and eyewitnesses.
The injured included Additional Commissioner of Police (North District) Harinder Kumar, SHOs of Kotwali and civil lines, and the operator of deputy commissioner of police (north), police said.
According to one version, the violence started after a lawyer's car allegedly hit a police jail van following which an argument broke out between him and the police.
Lawyers alleged that four of their colleagues were injured, including one in police firing, but the police denied that it had opened fire.
Bar associations condemned the incident and called a one-day strike across all district courts in the national capital on November 4.
A police vehicle was set on fire and eight others were vandalised during the fracas. Eight bikes were also torched, the officials said, adding that the Fire Department dispatched ten fire tenders to the spot.
A huge posse of police and anti-riot vehicles were deployed at the site after the violence.
The police said the situation is now under control and the undertrials who were stuck inside the court premises due to the clash were returned to their respective prisons in police vehicles.