Are lawyers above the law Social activist looks to intervene in ongoing tussle between lawyers and police in Chandigarh

Asserting that there is a general impression that lawyers are above the law, social activist Hemant Goswami has sought to be heard in the ongoing tussle between lawyers and police before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana..Asserting that there is a general impression that lawyers are above the law, social activist Hemant Goswami has sought to be heard in the ongoing tussle between lawyers and police before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana..Last week, after a violent clash between lawyers and the police in Chandigarh, the Chief Justice of the Punjab & Haryana High Court had taken suo motu cognizance of the matter and had directed that proceedings related to the FIR against twenty lawyers be stayed. The said FIR had been filed against former Additional Advocate General, Ruper Singh Khosla and others for reportedly physically assaulting a head constable. The.As reported by the Indian Express:.In a sharply worded application, copies of which were given in advance to the Chandigarh Administration on Sunday, the [Goswami] has submitted that “collective might and power of a group of people who are collectively registered as a separate juristic person should not be allowed to browbeat the system by putting extraneous pressure and by forceful imposition of their collective bargaining power”..Picture taken from here.