The lawyer at Calcutta High Court and the Central Administrative Tribunal's Kolkata Bench (CAT) will abstain from court proceedings on August 22 in protest against the alleged assault on an advocate by police officials of the Bidhan Nagar East police station.

According to the bar associations at the High Court and CAT, advocate Manujendra Narayan Roy was attacked on the night of August 20 and suffered a pelvic bone fracture as a result of the alleged assault.

In a complaint addressed to the High Court Bar Association, Roy claimed that the police personnel deliberately and brutally assaulted him.

“The members of the Bar Association, High Court, Calcutta shall not participate in any judicial proceedings in any mode or manner before this Hon’ble Court … until proper and satisfactory punitive action is taken against the erring police personnel,” the High Court Bar Association stated in its resolution.

It further announced that it will review the situation on August 25 after being informed of the measures taken against the accused police personnel.

Meanwhile, the CAT Bar Association said that the violence by authorities is not justice but an abuse of power.

"In such circumstances, we have decided to abstain ourself from participating in any Judicial Process tomorrow i.e. on 22.08.2025 from 11 A.M. onwards as a mark of protest against such brutal and barbaric attack by the Police Authority," it said.

[Read Bar Associations' Notices]