Ghaziabad News: Lawyers and bank employees filed cross-complaints against each other after a scuffle broke out between them on the premises of the Ambedkar road branch of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) . Giving information on Tuesday, police said cross-FIRs were filed by both groups following the clash.
Police said the lawyers got an FIR lodged on Tuesday against the manager and eight other employees of the bank. Advocate Nahar Singh Yadav, the former president of the Bar Association of Ghaziabad, filed a complaint in this regard.
Booked under several sections
The bank employees were booked under sections 147 (rioting), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 392 (robbery), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
A day before on Monday the bank employees registered an FIR against a group of lawyers, alleging that Nahar Yadav, his son and 70 other advocates thrashed the bank staff during bank transactions.
Who stated the fight?
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Nipun Agarwal said CCTV footage shows the bank manager starting a fight. Subsequently, Yadav called his lawyer colleagues to the bank and they thrashed several people present there, the officer added.
In his complaint, Yadav has said the officers and staff of the bank branch had a grudge against him and manhandled him.
On the other hand, an office-bearer of the PNB employees’ association, Utkarsh Kumar, accused the lawyers of beating up the bank staff.
The CCTV footage has been handed over to police.
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