Kanpur: The police on Saturday arrested advocate Taru Agarwal, named in the murder of lawyer Gautam Dutt, who was shot dead during a firing incident during the election of Kanpur Bar Association (KBA) on the district court campus on Friday.
Commissioner of police Asim Kumar Arun has appealed for full cooperation from the advocates in maintaining law and order.
To recall, firing took place outside the Shatabdi Gate on the district court campus after the cancellation of Bar association elections late on Friday evening. During this, advocate Gautam Dutt, a resident of Anwarganj Phoolwali Gali, was shot in the stomach. He died during treatment at around 10:30pm in the Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) hospital.
After the information, the lawyers created a ruckus, subsequently the police rushed to the spot and pacified them by assuring prompt action.
A case of murder has been registered on the complaint of deceased Gautam’s aunt Sangeeta Dwivedi, who has named one Taru Agarwal in the FIR. It is alleged that Taru Agarwal had killed Gautam owing to an old enmity.
The commissioner of police said that the main accused Taru Agarwal has been arrested in this case on Saturday morning, and is being questioned. Police sources, meanwhile, said that Taru Agarwal surrendered at the Cantt police station at around 5:30 am on Saturday.
In the complaint, there has been an allegation of electoral competition, but in the posters and pamphlets found by the police, Gautam Dutt and accused Taru Agarwal are seen supporting the same candidate. Police are trying to find out the exact reason behind the incident.
Meanwhile, advocates of Kanpur Nagar on Saturday abstained themselves from judicial work to mourn the death.
Gautam Dutt, an aspirant for the post of joint secretary, was shot after the declaration that KBA elections have been cancelled.
The two associations, Kanpur Bar Association and The Lawyers Association, put up the banner of strike and asked the members to keep themselves away from judicial proceedings.
KBA extended financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to the bereaved family of Gautam Dutt.
The administration has deployed a heavy police force in the morning at the postmortem house so that any untoward incident could be checked. The family, after the postmortem, performed the last rituals of the deceased advocate on the banks of river Ganga.
Meanwhile, the Bar council of UP has repeatedly asked the Elders Committee to furnish their report to the Bar Council as well as to the observer. But, there was no report so far according to Devendra Mishra observer sent by the Bar council of UP for supervision of election.
Mishra, talking to TOI, stated, “I thanked God when I reached home last night. I had never imagined that such types of practices were being adopted in the election of advocates, who were claimed as most educated.”
Mishra said that he was asking for a report since Friday evening but the election conducting committee did not send the same so far.
He had received a PDF file, a few minutes before in which they had tried to smudge the incident. “Bar Council chairman and others were waiting for the names of advocates involved in the shoot out and in illegal activities during the voting so that they could be suspended or deprived of their license. But, no name has been given so far,” Mishra, who is also a member of Bar Council, said.
Blaming the Elders Committee, he stated that they had still not sent the CCTV footage. “Once footage would be obtained then involved advocates could be identified easily and the Bar council would take action against them,” he added.
He pointed out that as per verbal report the Committee had blamed one candidate each for president’s and secretary’s post. But they did not name any one.
Though apparently Kanpur court premises were peaceful on Saturday, there were suppositions among the various groups of advocates. Point of discussion was firing in court premises and death of an advocate. Some blamed the student union like politics among fresher advocates, while some claimed hooliganism had started in the court premises.
Commissioner of police Asim Kumar Arun has appealed for full cooperation from the advocates in maintaining law and order.
To recall, firing took place outside the Shatabdi Gate on the district court campus after the cancellation of Bar association elections late on Friday evening. During this, advocate Gautam Dutt, a resident of Anwarganj Phoolwali Gali, was shot in the stomach. He died during treatment at around 10:30pm in the Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) hospital.
After the information, the lawyers created a ruckus, subsequently the police rushed to the spot and pacified them by assuring prompt action.
A case of murder has been registered on the complaint of deceased Gautam’s aunt Sangeeta Dwivedi, who has named one Taru Agarwal in the FIR. It is alleged that Taru Agarwal had killed Gautam owing to an old enmity.
The commissioner of police said that the main accused Taru Agarwal has been arrested in this case on Saturday morning, and is being questioned. Police sources, meanwhile, said that Taru Agarwal surrendered at the Cantt police station at around 5:30 am on Saturday.
In the complaint, there has been an allegation of electoral competition, but in the posters and pamphlets found by the police, Gautam Dutt and accused Taru Agarwal are seen supporting the same candidate. Police are trying to find out the exact reason behind the incident.
Meanwhile, advocates of Kanpur Nagar on Saturday abstained themselves from judicial work to mourn the death.
Gautam Dutt, an aspirant for the post of joint secretary, was shot after the declaration that KBA elections have been cancelled.
The two associations, Kanpur Bar Association and The Lawyers Association, put up the banner of strike and asked the members to keep themselves away from judicial proceedings.
KBA extended financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to the bereaved family of Gautam Dutt.
The administration has deployed a heavy police force in the morning at the postmortem house so that any untoward incident could be checked. The family, after the postmortem, performed the last rituals of the deceased advocate on the banks of river Ganga.
Meanwhile, the Bar council of UP has repeatedly asked the Elders Committee to furnish their report to the Bar Council as well as to the observer. But, there was no report so far according to Devendra Mishra observer sent by the Bar council of UP for supervision of election.
Mishra, talking to TOI, stated, “I thanked God when I reached home last night. I had never imagined that such types of practices were being adopted in the election of advocates, who were claimed as most educated.”
Mishra said that he was asking for a report since Friday evening but the election conducting committee did not send the same so far.
He had received a PDF file, a few minutes before in which they had tried to smudge the incident. “Bar Council chairman and others were waiting for the names of advocates involved in the shoot out and in illegal activities during the voting so that they could be suspended or deprived of their license. But, no name has been given so far,” Mishra, who is also a member of Bar Council, said.
Blaming the Elders Committee, he stated that they had still not sent the CCTV footage. “Once footage would be obtained then involved advocates could be identified easily and the Bar council would take action against them,” he added.
He pointed out that as per verbal report the Committee had blamed one candidate each for president’s and secretary’s post. But they did not name any one.
Though apparently Kanpur court premises were peaceful on Saturday, there were suppositions among the various groups of advocates. Point of discussion was firing in court premises and death of an advocate. Some blamed the student union like politics among fresher advocates, while some claimed hooliganism had started in the court premises.
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