Hours after Delhi police commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi said that action will be taken against the three lawyers, who had allegedly attacked JNU teachers and students at the Patiala House courts complex, one of them was arrested on Tuesday evening.
Sources said that Yashpal Singh was called for questioning at the Tilak Marg police station during which he was arrested.
The sources said that Mr Singh was booked under Sections 147, 149, 323 and 247 of the IPC and was released on bail as per the provisions under these sections.
Mr Singh’s arrest came a day after a news channel aired a sting operation in which the lawyer was seen boasting about beating JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, charged with sedition, when he was brought to the court on February 17.
A senior Delhi police official said Mr Singh has been arrested in connection with two cases of assault when he presented himself to the investigators at the Tilak Marg police station in response to the summons.
Mr Singh was caught on camera beating journalists and JNU students and teachers along with his colleagues Vikram Singh Chauhan and Om Sharma among others.
While Mr Sharma was arrested on Saturday and subsequently released on bail, Mr Chauhan, who led two brazen attacks, is yet to respond to multiple notices issued by the police asking him to join probe.
Groups of lawyers led by Mr Chauhan had thrashed journalists and JNU students and teachers on February 15 and repeated their act on February 17 against Mr Kumar and some journalists, in open defiance of the Supreme Court’s instructions.
“While one case against Mr Singh pertains to the February 15 incident, the other relates to the attack which took place two days later,” said the official.
On Tuesday morning, Mr Bassi had said that coercive action will be taken against the lawyers involved in the attack. “We had summoned them many times. We have arrested one after he joined investigation. For eight days we have sent repeated summons to the others,” he added.
