The High Court of Karnataka on Friday suo motu took cognisance of an incident in which police assaulted a young advocate inside the police station in Chikkamagaluru on November 30 night following an argument, which erupted after the police stopped his two-wheeler and took away the keys as the latter was not wearing a helmet.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Krishna S. Dixit passed the order by treating as a PIL petition, a letter written by the Advocate’ Association, Bengaluru (AAB), to the Chief Justice informing the ‘brutal attack’ on the advocate by the police.
Observing orally that “it is not a happy thing to happen in the State”, the Bench wondered “what would be the plight of a common man if an advocate could face such a brutality from the police.” The Bench, after noticing the injuries based the photographs produced before it, orally observed that the incidents reminds the scenes that used to occur on the streets of Uganda.
