Ignoring the summons from Delhi Police, on Thursday, Vikram Singh Chauhan – the lawyer who led the attacks on students and journalists and on JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar at the Patiala House Courts – made his way to the Karkardooma courts to be felicitated by colleagues for his stand against “anti-nationals”.
According to reports, Chauhan and two other lawyers had been asked to appear before the police on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Bar Council of India (BCI) apologised for the violence at the Patiala House Courts and said if the lawyers were found guilty, their licences would be suspended for life.
But the warning seemed to fall on deaf ears on the lawyers who celebrated Chauhan’s actions at the Patiala House Courts earlier this week. They even protested against the “victimisation” of the lawyers who were involved in the attacks.
A resident of Haryana, Chauhan is better known as an active and rigorous BJP party worker than as a lawyer. He is very active on social media and even has a page to promote his political ideologies.
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