New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to transfer four police officers including one joint commissioner and three DCPs on Wednesday.
The apex court had expressed its displeasure over the February 19 Madras High Court incidents and asked the Tamil Nadu government to inform under whose authority the police entered the court premises.
The SC has also ordered judicial probe under justice BN Srikrishna into the excesses committed by the police in the Madras HC.
A bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan asked the committee to submit its interim report within two weeks.
Meanwhile, lawyers of the Madras High Court have refused to resume work as they fear their safety. Violent protests and clashes between the lawyers and police had broken out in the High Court premises on February 19.
But in a balancing act, the apex court also criticised the lawyers, many of whom are still unwilling to rejoin work.
"Only a few lawyers in the Madras High Court are doing such activities. Five per cent go around in the court lobby shouting slogans. Please don't do it," said the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court may have assuaged the Tamil Nadu lawyers by ordering a judicial probe into the Madras High Court incident, but the larger question is whether lawyers have a right to strike and hold litigants to ransom.
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