The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the Delhi government to ensure that a police complaint was lodged under appropriate provisions over an alleged assault on a lawyer in south Delhi the day before.<\/p>\n
Family members of Sanjeev R. Vashisht, 38, alleged that he was was beaten up badly Wednesday near Bhagat Singh College by goons linked to the land mafia.<\/p>\n
Vashisht, who was fighting a property related case against the land mafia in a trial court, was brought to court on a stretcher by his mother and brother.<\/p>\n
The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw directed Pawan Sharma, government’s standing counsel, to look into the matter and get a proper complaint registered against accused.<\/p>\n
The victim’s brother Sanjeev Vashisht alleged that officials at Malviya Nagar police station lodged a first information report (FIR) under minor sections of the penal law under the influence of the land mafia.<\/p>\n
No arrests had been made despite the victim naming two people, he said.<\/p>\n
The police “deliberately lodged the case of simple injury, wrongful restraint and criminal intimidation against the accused, while we sought registration of attempt to murder case”, Vashisht said.<\/p>\n
The family of the victim alleged that the court had provided protection to the victim in its earlier order despite which police had not taken action against the land mafia.<\/p>\n
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