AGENCIES
A special cell team of Delhi police raided the office of senior advocate Mehmood Pracha, who represented many accused in the Delhi riots.
The raids at Pracha’s office in Delhi’s Nizamuddin East began at around 12.30 pm and continued for more than three hours.
According to Pracha’s colleagues, the search team insisted upon seizing his computer and various documents, which contain case details and thus makes the police’s action illegal.
The office of a lawyer in Delhi who allegedly tutored people to give false statements in cases linked to the riots over the amended citizenship law in the national capital in February was raided by the Delhi Police on Thursday.
The lawyer, Mehmood Pracha, forged an affidavit signed by another lawyer who died three years ago, the police said. Mr Pracha also instructed people who suffered in the Delhi riots to give false statements, the police said.
Taking to Twitter early on Friday, Pracha alleged that he and his associates were assaulted by officials of the Delhi Police team after they “found nothing,” after “15 hours of marathon scrutiny of all my office computers filed and even bathrooms.”
“If @DelhiPolice doesn’t destroy the Court ordered video recording of the raid the real masterminds of North East Delhi violence will get exposed. I was repeatedly threatened with the name of @AmitShah Sahab. I thank all the people who supported me. I promise that we will not back down in our Mission Save Constitution. It was an attack on the lawyers community I am proud that all my juniors stood like rock against the vicious attack on legal profession,” he tweeted.