As scores of angry lawyers gathered outside the district courts in Rohini and Saket on Wednesday, 6 November, television visuals showed a man in standing on top of the high-rise court building Rohini in an apparent suicide bid.
Another lawyer appeared to attempt self-immolation, pouring kerosene on himself before his colleagues stopped him.
This was in retaliation to the 11-hour protests by Delhi Police personnel outside the Police Headquarters on 5 November.
As lawyers raised slogans, litigants could be seen standing outside the gates of the courts, waiting to enter but not being allowed to do so.
On Tuesday, the chairman of the coordination committee of All Bar Associations in Delhi had said lawyers would continue to boycott work on Wednesday, notwithstanding a Bar Council of India appeal to end their strike.
The police protests earlier were triggered by two attacks on their colleagues, one on Monday outside Saket District Court, and another on Saturday at the Tis Hazari Courts Complex after a parking dispute between an on-duty policeman and a lawyer led to at least 20 security personnel and several advocates being injured.
Two FIRs were registered against unidentified persons who were seen in a video hitting a uniformed policeman on a motorcycle with his elbow and slapping him outside the Saket court on Monday.
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